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Table 1: Privacy concerns
Type of Concern
Description
Remedies
Spamming
Unsolicited
Never respond to junk E-mail,
commercial E-mail
Unauthorised
Employers
Review workplaces, ISP and Web site privacy
Access/Surveillance
monitoring E-mail,
policies
computer and
Internet use in the
workplace
Collection of
Cookies -
Block cookies and manage their cookie files .
Information through
Documenting
Internet users can access free programs such as
Cookies
consumers’ buying
IDcide, AdSubtract, and Naviscope are free
habits etc. from their
programs available at
on-line interactions
<
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads > to help
block cookies.
Selling Personal
Desire to control the
Opt out of profiling and market research services.
information by
collection,
Information brokers
compilation and
transfer or sale of
one’s personal
information to
others
Intellectual Property
Copying, editing,
Use disclaimers to discourage, be prepared to file
Rights (IPR)
morphing and
a law suit.
otherwise
manipulating
information; S/W
piracy - unlicensed
distribution of
copyright music
Privacy and
Companies at times
Controlling children's access to on-line
Children's On-line
target children on-
environment by their parents and educating them
Activities
line for collecting
about on-line environment abuses.
information
e-mail. Spamming is growing because it costs so little to send out millions of
messages or advertisements electronically. Many prominent high-technology com-
panies have already been caught attempting to quietly collect information about their
customers and pass it to potential marketing companies who in turn
send junk mail
to market their products. Junk e-mail is becoming very pervasive, with one bulk e-
mailer, Cyber Promotions, boasting that it sends 1.5 million messages a day (Smith,
1996). The users who receive junk mail can request the cyber shopping company
from whom they have purchased to remove them from their e-mailing list and the
company not to distribute the user’s identity. E-mail service providers and browsers