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Internet privacy

We see that servers have access to our IP addresses and other information.That information can be used to estimate our location – to geo-locate us – at a given time.To see how that works, we will take a quick look at Internet communication technology – data packets, URLs and IP addresses.We will look at ways to maintain anonymity if desired, and conclude by considering the aggregation of data that we and our friends release voluntarily.... Show More

Keywords:: packet header and body, log, geo-location, aggregating information, proxy server, social graph, anonymity, IP address, URL

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Academic Support Services / Library and Information Services / Information and Communication Technology Literacy / Information Literacy Standards

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Material Type:: Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 22, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:: June 22, 2016
Author:: Larry Press, CSUDH
Submitter:: Larry Press

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States