Internet Challenges to Privacy:
Cookies
Tiny files downloaded by Web site to visitor’s hard drive
Identify visitor’s browser and track visits to site
Allow Web sites to develop profiles on visitors
Web bugs
Tiny graphics embedded in e-mail messages and Web pages
Designed to monitor who is reading a message and transmitting that information to another computer on the Internet
Spyware
Surreptitiously installed on user’s computer
May transmit user’s keystrokes or display unwanted ads