Privacy Policies and Personal Information
These are some important vocabulary that you should know when it comes to privacy policies:
Personally identifiable information: Any data that could potentially identify a specific individual. Any information that can be used to distinguish one person from another and can be used for de-anonymizing anonymous data can be considered PII.
Cookies: A packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.
Third party: Someone who may be indirectly involved but is not a principal party to an arrangement, contract, deal, lawsuit, or transaction.
Privacy options: the part of a social networking website, internet browser, piece of software, etc. that allows you to control who sees information about you
How does a website retrieve personal information?
Websites retrieve your personal information by having you fill out a few questions before you start using the app for example, they might ask you what your full name is, email address, phone number, address etc. Another way websites retrieve personal information is by, having things called cookies which is stored in their database so, that they can recognize you and keep track of you.
Why is it important to read a website’s privacy policy?
It's important to read a website privacy policy because, you always want to know what information a website is going to collect from you. It's better to be aware of what you're accepting than to not know anything and then you'll regret it later.
How reading a privacy policy can help users stay safe on the Internet.
Reading a privacy policy can help you and users stay safe online because, if you don't want to give out certain information about yourself, then you can read the privacy policies and decide if you want to still use that app or not after reading the privacy policy.
Why do website owners want information about their visitors?
Website owners want information about their visitors because, they want to know what type of people are using their app and they also want to know who's using their information so, that they can prevent fraud.
Why is anonymity an important feature of the Internet?
Anonymity is an important feature of the internet because, sometimes people want to say things without getting identify by others for example, if someone had a really bad experience at a certain place but, they don't want to let the people know who they can still right the review without getting hate.
In my digital literacy class we had to pick an app, read over some privacy options then, answer some questions. These are the following questions and their answers.
1)Does your site collect personally identifiable information? If so, which specific kinds?
Personally identifiable information: Any data that could potentially identify a specific individual. Any information that can be used to distinguish one person from another and can be used for de-anonymizing anonymous data can be considered PII.
Cookies: A packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.
Third party: Someone who may be indirectly involved but is not a principal party to an arrangement, contract, deal, lawsuit, or transaction.
Privacy options: the part of a social networking website, internet browser, piece of software, etc. that allows you to control who sees information about you
How does a website retrieve personal information?
Websites retrieve your personal information by having you fill out a few questions before you start using the app for example, they might ask you what your full name is, email address, phone number, address etc. Another way websites retrieve personal information is by, having things called cookies which is stored in their database so, that they can recognize you and keep track of you.
Why is it important to read a website’s privacy policy?
It's important to read a website privacy policy because, you always want to know what information a website is going to collect from you. It's better to be aware of what you're accepting than to not know anything and then you'll regret it later.
How reading a privacy policy can help users stay safe on the Internet.
Reading a privacy policy can help you and users stay safe online because, if you don't want to give out certain information about yourself, then you can read the privacy policies and decide if you want to still use that app or not after reading the privacy policy.
Why do website owners want information about their visitors?
Website owners want information about their visitors because, they want to know what type of people are using their app and they also want to know who's using their information so, that they can prevent fraud.
Why is anonymity an important feature of the Internet?
Anonymity is an important feature of the internet because, sometimes people want to say things without getting identify by others for example, if someone had a really bad experience at a certain place but, they don't want to let the people know who they can still right the review without getting hate.
In my digital literacy class we had to pick an app, read over some privacy options then, answer some questions. These are the following questions and their answers.
1)Does your site collect personally identifiable information? If so, which specific kinds?
- This website does collect personally identifiable information and those kinds would be, the person's email address, phone number, address, full name.
- This app does use cookies and those cookies can be beneficial for the app because, they offer you offers from their partners which lets them earn more money
- This app does share information with third parties. This app decides to share personal information for legal reasons. This can be beneficial because, it can help detect and resolve frauds but, you never know what that third party can do with your personal information
- This app does offer privacy options for example, only people who you've added can view your story and you can pick the people who can view your story. It is important to use privacy options because, without it people can easily get information about you.
- I think the app want to get specific information about you because, they might want to know what type of person is using their app and it can also help to know people's information if they are doing something illegal online.