FIT100
Digital Privacy
How private is your information online?
•Reputable
online business post Privacy Stmt
•The statement should understandable to you and say what
info they collect, what they will do with it, how to “opt-out”, etc.
•But,
there is little policing & few penalties
Real Networks in 1999 secretly gathered data on people’s personal music tastes,
encrypted the info so no one
would know, didn’t mention it in their privacy statement, and used TRUSTe auditor --
the day after getting
caught, they improved their privacy statement … should we ever trust them???