Privacy of Information Technology

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PRIVACY OF INFORMATIONPRIVACY OF INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGYTECHNOLOGY


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Concept of E-Privacy & Data Protection in

Cyberspace

In the Internet Era, larger amounts of information is

collected and there are greater risk that such

information will be disclosed.

Maintaining of databases is not as much difficult task

as maintaining its integrity, so in this era the mostconcerned debate is going on to innovative a perfect

method of data protection.


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In the electronic age, complete control over our

privacy is not possible as we leave behind a trail of

data, which often contains personal information,

such as credit card, insurance, banks, hospitals,schools, tax, credit history, telephone etc. this can

be analyzed from the following illustrations:-

1. On every login to the e-mail account in the cyber

cafes, the electronic trail of password remained

left there unsecured.


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2. On every use of credit card for purchasing purpose,

the trail of brand preference, place of shopping etc.left behind.

3.A list of technologies that have the potential to

impact on privacy like Biometrics (such asfingerprints, hand geometry, face, voice, iris and

keystroke recognition),Radio frequency

identification (RFID),Smart cards, Voice over

Internet Protocol (VoIP),Wireless technologies,Location detection technologies (like Global

Positioning Systems),Data-matching and data

mining technologies, Surveillance Technologies


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Privacy in Technology Driven World

There are means to capture digital footprints of user, who is

browsing internet for various reasons. It all begins with

capturing IP address. An Internet Protocol address (IP address)

is a numerical label that is assigned to devices participating in

a computer networkthat uses the Internet Protocol forcommunication between its nodes.

Whenever a person browses, sends e-mails, chats online, he

leaves distinctive IP address behind. By searching IPregistration database or conducting trace out, approximate

physical location of IP address can be determined.


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Other surveillance technologies used are: cookies, GlobalUnique Identifies (GUID), Web Bugs, e-mail or documentbugs & spy ware

1. Cookies -

It is a block of text (digital identification tags) which the

website places in a file on a computer hard disk of a personto track his activity.

2. GUID -

Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) is software embedded inthe computers hardware. It can be read remotely from acrossthe network. For example:- If GUID embedded on Ethernetcards, used in LAN. Then you will listen all privateconversation / information's of all the computers connectedthrough LAN.


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3. Web Bugs -

These are being increasingly used by online advertisers to

create users database. It occurs even though the person has not

clicked on the banner ad.

4. SPYWARE -

Some software developers have included code with in their

applications that cause the users computer to transmitinformation back to the software developer Via Internet.


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Privacy & Data Protection Issues in IT Age

BPO & Call Centre -

India is preferred destination for offshore Business

Outsourcing (Financial, Education, Legal, Banking,

Healthcare, Marketing, Telecommunications services).

Telemarketing-

India is faced with a new phenomenon called telemarketing

which has invaded millions of hapless Indians thanks to the

widespread use of mobile phones and multiplicity of mobile

telephone service providers in India.


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The first step to data security is that to ensuring that all

connections to important storage are made over virtual

private network (VPN) channels.

Hardware requirements for access (such as one-time

numerical password generators) and rejection of connection

attempts over unencrypted channels are important methods.

All data should be in encrypted form.

HOW TO MAINTAIN PRIVACY


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A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network that uses a

public telecommunication infrastructure such as the Internet to provide

remote offices or individual users with secure access to their

organization's network Secure VPNs use cryptographic tunneling protocols to provide

confidentiality by blocking intercepts and packet sniffing, allowing

sender authentication to block identity spoofing, and provide message

integrity by preventing message alteration.

Secure VPN protocols include the following: IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) was originally developed for IPv6,

which requires it. This standards-based security protocol is also widely

used with IPv4. L2TP frequently runs over IPsec.

Transport LayerSecurity (SSL/TLS) can tunnel an entire network's

traffic, as it does in the Open VPN project, or secure an individual

connection. A number of vendors provide remote access VPN

capabilities through SSL. An SSL VPN can connect from locations

where IPsec runs into trouble with Network Address Translation and

firewall rules.


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A globally unique identifier or GUID is a special type of identifier used

in software applications to provide a unique reference number. The

value is represented as a 32 character hexadecimal string, such as

{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}and usually stored as a 128 bit integer. The term GUID usually, but not

always, refers to Microsoft's implementation of the Universally Unique

Identifier (UUID) standard.

GUIDs are used in software development as database keys,component identifiers, or just about anywhere else a truly unique

identifier is required. GUIDs are also used to identify all interfaces and

objects in COM programming.

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