Spyware

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The paper considers the nature of spyware and the threat it poses to privacy, defining spyware as software programs placed on a computer that allow outsiders to gather information and track computer use. The paper shows that such programs can clearly lead to invasions of privacy. The paper discusses how the degree to which such programs are used, some of the forms they take and the means that might be used to eliminate them need to be better understood. The paper is of the opinion that a search through the literature can reveal much of this data and point to areas where further research is needed.

From the Paper:

"Data surveillance through the computer has created a system that increasingly menaces individual privacy. Computers were employed first to store scientific and numerical information, or information that was already in the public domain but that had to be collected into one computerized source. However, computers have more and more been employed to collect sensitive information about the individual's personal life so that the individual was slowly losing control over his or her personal information. This problem of the danger of invasion of privacy has been foreseen for some time."

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