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Assignment 2: Information Literacy

Ebrahim Rajabtabar Darvish completed an assignment on information literacy for his CSIT 101 course. He searched the Academic OneFile database for academic articles on privacy issues. He found two relevant articles and cited them using AMA style. He also discussed several online articles on privacy tools and Google's new privacy controls dashboard. In his evaluation, Darvish found the academic database provided more timely and authoritative sources for his topic compared to internet searches.

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Assignment 2: Information Literacy

Ebrahim Rajabtabar Darvish completed an assignment on information literacy for his CSIT 101 course. He searched the Academic OneFile database for academic articles on privacy issues. He found two relevant articles and cited them using AMA style. He also discussed several online articles on privacy tools and Google's new privacy controls dashboard. In his evaluation, Darvish found the academic database provided more timely and authoritative sources for his topic compared to internet searches.

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Ebrahim Rajabtabar Darvish

Course: CSIT 101


Date: 06/06/15
Assignment 2: Information Literacy
1) Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Issue.
2) Database: Academic OneFile
3) Because I was looking for Academic Articles.
4)
#1) AMA
Reference List (American Medical Assoc.)
Ait Ouahman A. Security and privacy issues in cloud computing. Journal of Defense
Resources Management [serial online]. 2014 ;(2):99. Available from: Academic OneFile,
Ipswich, MA. Accessed June 6, 2015.
#2) AMA Reference List

(American Medical Assoc.)

Velasquez J. Web mining and privacy concerns: Some important legal issues to be
consider before applying any data and information extraction technique in web-based
environments. Expert Systems With Applications [serial online]. 2013 ;( 13):5228.
Available from: Academic OneFile, Ipswich, MA. Accessed June 6, 2015.

#1)

Ebrahim Rajabtabar Darvish


Course: CSIT 101
Date: 06/06/15
#2)

2) 14 privacy tools you should use to stay secure.


a) This article talks about 14 ways that we can stay secure. For example how we can use
software more secure. Also this article talk about what browser we can use for stay safety
and the onion router, is one of the most popular and undefeated ways to browse the
Internet without leaving your activity open for prying eyes.
b) Whittaker, Zack. "14 Privacy Tools You Should Use to Stay Secure | ZDNet." ZDNet.
Whittaker, 21 May 2015. Web. 06 June 2015.
3) a) Privacy , Privacy
b ) Perez, Sarah. "Google Centralizes Privacy And Security Controls On New
Web Dashboard." TechCrunch. Perez, 1 June 2015. Web. 06 June 2015.
C) http://techcrunch.com

Ebrahim Rajabtabar Darvish


Course: CSIT 101
Date: 06/06/15
4)

a) May 21, 2015 -- 15:45 GMT (08:45 PDT)


b) Yes, it dose.
c) Zack Whittaker , Zack Whittaker is a writer-editor for ZDNet, and sister sites

CNET and CBS News. He is based in the New York newsroom. His PGP key is:
EB6CEEA5.
d) Yes, I think we can trust it, because I saw some evidences .yes, it has.
e) Inform and persuade. Material is objective.

5)
a) Ease of access: after I use Internet article and DB article, I was fine with DB article
because I was looking for academic article and I found it.
b) Timeliness: At DB article I was able to find current article but at internet article it was
a little harder.
c) Authority: to compare at authority I think internet article is fine too, but I think its
depend on what you want and what you are looking for. At this issue I prefer work with DB
article.
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Ebrahim Rajabtabar Darvish


Course: CSIT 101
Date: 06/06/15

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