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Unit 14: Web Services and Privacy

14.1.4 Safeguarding Internet Privacy Notes

Well providing you are on the Internet you cannot end the broadcast of information for sure.
Though one thing that you can surely do is - evade browsing websites that are not dependable
or seem fishy. Especially if you would like to safeguard your privacy in terms of financial and
communal matters do not danger it by shopping on untrustworthy websites or signing up
apprehensive membership forms that needs you to fill up your social safekeeping numbers,
credit card details and other significant information. You can also modify your privacy settings
in Internet options setting of your computer. You can utilize anti-spyware programs to remove
spyware items and tracking cookies that intimidate your Internet safety. Therefore if you cannot
discontinue sending out your information whereas you are browsing you can surely prefer the
websites that you can trust your information with.
In an age where we show off about the advantages of technology and the manner the world is
getting closer and closer, there is no alternative but to bear the little limitations of this technology.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. ........................ points to the association among technology and the legal rights that come
with it.
2. Internet privacy can be measured as a division of ........................ privacy.
3. The websites can mark you with a simple technical element known as ‘........................’.

4. You can utilize ........................ programs to remove spyware items and tracking cookies
that intimidate your Internet safety.

14.2 Web Services

The term “Web Services” can be puzzling. It is, unluckily, frequently used in many dissimilar
manners. Compounding this perplexity is term “services” that has a dissimilar meaning than
the term “Web Services.” The term Web Services points to the technologies that permit for
making connections. Services are what you attach together using Web Services. A service is the
endpoint of a connection. Also, a service has some sort of original computer system that assists
the connection provided. The combination of services i.e. internal and external to an organization
– generate a service-oriented architecture.
A classic Web transaction includes three components: users, services and databases. This obviously
defines a privacy model with three dissimilar types of privacy: user privacy, service privacy,
and data privacy.

Example: Examples of web transaction includes voting, tax payment, online shopping,
hotel reservation.

14.2.1 User Privacy

Users of a Web service comprise persons (e.g., citizens and case officers), applications, and other
Web services. In many cases, users conversing with a Web service are needed to offer a major
amount of personal sensitive information (example, their social security number, credit card
number, health information, and address). Users of Web services, though, may expect or need
dissimilar levels of privacy as per their observation of the information sensitivity.

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