Computers and the internet are merely tools to access this median between users and the massive amounts of information available. ... The first is if there is suspicion that the sender is attempting to damage the system or harm another user. ... When the user returns to that site the cookies reveal that he has been there before and may offer products or ads based on the data in the retrieved cookie (Computer Privacy Presentation). ... The problem with all of this is that it is all done without the knowledge of the user. ... Even though it may seem immediate, an e-mail message travels from ...

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If more people are accessing the Internet, then who will govern the data that is transferred to the user community? ... Utilizing different software packages that block certain activity on a computer can do this. ... The user simply enters their destination like they would in a normal browser. The myShield servers act as filters between its users and the World Wide Web" (Coventry, 2002). ... So the next time you are using the computer and think your along, you may want to think about who is monitoring your actions on your own personal computer through the information highway called the Inte...

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Judging by the impression one receives on browsing through articles in the media, it would seem that the Internet will a lawless dimension as the law cannot cope with the breakdown of national barriers , the cross-border implications of the interlinking of computers worldwide. ... The Supreme Court of the USA has defined the Internet as "an international network of interconnected computers .... a unique and wholly new medium of human communication."".The Internet has proved to be one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. ... Yet this very strength of the internet is also its greates...

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A widely discussed element of surveillance in the workplace is computer based monitoring. As the number of employees using computers has increased along with the dependence of computers, so has the need to monitor activities. The most universal (common) form of computer workplace surveillance is packet sniffing. ... Since the late nineties, sniffers have now evolved into widely used programs such as Ethereal, EtherPeek and Triticom LANdecoder321, which have graphical user interfaces (GUI) to make them easy for virtually anyone to use them. ... Computer science is the only discipline in...

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This involves continually monitoring your employee's every move using techniques such as computer monitoring, which involves examining an employee's use of a computer both during and after it is used. ... Log Files: Computers are full of log files that provide evidence of what you have been doing (eg. ... These signals can be intercepted by a desktop monitoring program', which can be installed on a computer at the operating system level or the assembly level. The person receiving the intercepted signals van see each character being typed and can replicate what the user is seei...

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Another one is to block the user and limit the amount of personal information that is shown online, again, parents should teach their children how to react when people are trying to cyber bully them. ... As a choice, parents can even bend the limitations on the computer and block the inappropriate social networks. ... However, parents do have rights to alter the settings and make the limitations of computer systems. ...

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