This document discusses privacy concerns on the internet. It begins with defining the internet and its uses. It then outlines several privacy concerns people may have as buyers and sellers on eBay, as members of social media like Facebook, and in general when conducting activities online. Specific concerns mentioned include identity revelation during purchases, hacking of online transactions, receiving spam emails, flaws in eBay's feedback system, risks of social sharing, and data breaches in various sectors like banking and hotels. The document concludes by stating that one is fooling themselves if they feel completely safe on the internet regarding privacy and sensitive personal information.

1. Privacy On The Internet
By
Chiranjeevi Mondi
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2. Agenda
1. What is ‘Internet’?
2. Privacy on the Internet
3. Privacy concerns as a buyer in e-Bay.
4. Privacy concerns as a seller in e-Bay.
5. Privacy concerns in Social Media.
6. Other Privacy Concerns

3. What is “Internet”?
 A means of connecting a computer to any other computer
anywhere in the world via dedicated routers and servers.
 As of April 2019, 56.1% of the world's population
has internet access, and 81% of the developed world. In 2015,
the International Telecommunication Union estimated about
3.2 billion people, or almost half of the world's population,
would be online by the end of the year.

4. Uses of The Internet
 Electronic mail
 Downloading files.
 Discussion groups.
 Interactive games.
 Education and self-improvement.
 Friendship
 Electronic newspapers and magazines.
 Job-hunting.
 Shopping.

5. Is Privacy required on the Internet?

6. Yes, Indeed!
 Internet privacy is the privacy and security level of personal data published via the
Internet. It is a broad term that refers to a variety of factors, techniques and
technologies used to protect sensitive and private data, communications, and
preferences.

7. What privacy concerns do you have as a buyer
in e-Bay?
 Consumer’s identity might reveal for the purchase they made.
 Hacks performed on the online transaction for these sites.
 Getting spam mail.
 Second Chances, Phishing emails pretending to be eBay,
requests to pay by wire.

8. What privacy concerns do you have as a seller in
e-Bay?
 eBay Feedback System has some serious privacy flaws.
Despite the privacy measures provided by eBay, it is possible
to recover a user’s purchase history. There are several attacks
compromising the privacy of eBay users.
 Buyers being a hacker to fraud seller.
 Buyer providing negative comment to a seller.

9. What privacy concerns do you have as a member of
social networks such as Facebook?

10. What privacy concerns do you have as a member of
social networks such as Facebook?
 CLICK ME !!!!!
 (Steel, 2010) Claims that Facebook Inc. has been sharing
information like the user’s name and their friend's name to
advertisers and internet tracking company.
 Fake Requests from Spam Profiles
 Risks in Social Sharing
 Profile Hacking
 Fake Apps and Malicious Links.

11. Other privacy concerns public have related to
Internet and Web
 Movie Piracy before the release date leads to the data privacy
breach for the film industries (Urbonavicius, 2018).
 Data breaches happening on sectors as if banking is highly
likely to happen because of monetary purpose.
 On 18 April 2017, 1000 of Intercontinental hotels encountered
by a security breach, leading to sensitive customer data being
compromised (Talebi, 2018).

12. Conclusion
 If one feels that they are safe on the internet then they are
fooling themselves

13. Reference List
 Steel, E. and Fowler, G., 2010. Facebook in privacy breach. The Wall Street Journal,
18(1).
 Talebi, N., 2018. The Effect of Perceived Warning Message Characteristics on
Coping Responses in Data Breach Scenarios (Doctoral dissertation, The University
of Texas at San Antonio).
 Urbonavicius, S., Dikcius, V., Adomaviciute, K. and Urbonavicius, I., 2018. Movie
piracy: how novelty-seeking relates to illegal downloading. EuroMed Journal of
Business.

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