Computers and Privacy

Computers and Privacy What is privacy? When most of us think about privacy, if we do at all, we think about closed doors and drawn window shades or hiding our actions from others. We must change the way we think about privacy. Perhaps we need a better word. If anything, privacy is more about the right to remain anonymous. It's the right to know we are not being watched as we walk down the street …

…site, http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html or read http://www.infowar.com/class_1/01/class1_081401b_j.shtml For an almost inexhaustible resource of links to short articles on topics relevant to this course see http://www.infowar.com/ For Next Session: Research and come prepared to discuss- ·         Hacking and Cracking – crime on the Internet. List examples of computer crime ·         The Computer Misuse Act 1990. Make a note of the main terms of the Act