1. Internet Privacy Define PRIVACY? How important is internet privacy to you? What privacy settings do you utilize for your social media sites?

2. What is Privacy? The ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. A personal, subjective condition. One person cannot decide for another what his or her sense of privacy should be.

3. Online Privacy The ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to control who can access that information.

4. How Is My Personal Information Revealed? By ISP: Internet Service Providers Internet Service Providers always know your IP address and the IP address to which you are communicating.

5. By Emails May be inappropriately spread by the receiver. May be intercepted. May be legally viewed or disclosed by service providers or authorities. How Is My Personal Information Revealed?

6. By Social Networking Sites and Discussion Groups Always check your privacy settings to ensure that your private information is not open to the public. How Is My Personal Information Revealed?

7. Internet Browsers Most web browsers can save some forms of personal data, such as browsing history, cookies, web form entries, and passwords. You may accidentally reveal such information when using a browser on a public computer. How Is My Personal Information Revealed?

8. What are Cookies? Cookies are data packets sent by a server to a web client, and then sent back unchanged by the client each time it accesses that server. They are used for authenticating session tracking and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. They are only data, not programs or viruses.

9. Cookies can be hijacked and modified by attackers. Cookies can be used to track browsing behavior. Why Do Some People Dislike Cookies?

10. Search Engines Search engines have and use the ability to track each one of your searches by IP addresses, search terms, time, etc. How Is My Personal Information Revealed?

11. Search Engines August 7, 2006: AOL apologized for releasing search log data on subscribers. Almost two weeks before that, AOL had quietly released roughly 20 million search records from 658,000 users. In January 2006, the US Department of Justice issued a subpoena asking popular search engines to provide a “random sampling” of 1 million IP addresses and search queries submitted over a one-week period. Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL complied, while Google fought the subpoena. How Is My Personal Information Revealed?

12. Official Use Court Records: When you file a lawsuit for divorce or are a party to a civil lawsuit or criminal case, court records are accessible to the public. Government: The government may want your personal information for law enforcement purposes as well as for foreign intelligence investigations. Various laws govern these procedures. How Is My Personal Information Revealed?

13. Cookie controls – check your computer settings Anti-virus software and firewalls Raise awareness of privacy Learn to safeguard your privacy Solution to Protect Online Privacy

14. Download and read the article “School District Hires Company to Monitor Students” and answer the questions that follow. Your Task