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The document discusses how the internet provides benefits but also challenges to privacy as personal data is often monitored online. It describes how governments, companies and hackers track users for different purposes. The document also outlines some measures users can take to help mitigate online tracking like using privacy plugins or VPNs, but privacy online remains challenging to achieve fully.

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Discussion Forum Unit 1

The document discusses how the internet provides benefits but also challenges to privacy as personal data is often monitored online. It describes how governments, companies and hackers track users for different purposes. The document also outlines some measures users can take to help mitigate online tracking like using privacy plugins or VPNs, but privacy online remains challenging to achieve fully.

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The Internet has bestowed numerous advantages upon individuals and society, facilitating

access to information, communication, education, entertainment, and commerce (MIT News,


2014). Despite these benefits, it introduces substantial challenges to privacy, with personal
data and online activities frequently monitored, collected, and shared by diverse entities,
including governments, companies, and hackers.

Online monitoring serves varied purposes, depending on the entity engaged in tracking.
Governments may surveil users to thwart crime, terrorism, or dissent, companies to deliver
targeted advertisements, personalized services, or conduct market research, and hackers to
pilfer identities, credentials, or monetary assets (Brennan Center for Justice, 2019).

To mitigate or prevent online tracking, users can adopt several measures, such as utilizing
privacy plugins or extensions, adjusting cookie settings in browsers, limiting tracking on
platforms and services associated with their accounts, deleting cookies and caches, blocking
image tracking, using a private browser, or employing a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
(wikiHow, 2022; Popular Science, 2020; Ghostery, 2020).

While achieving privacy online is feasible, it is not without challenges or assurances. Users
must remain cognizant of the inherent risks and trade-offs associated with Internet use, taking
proactive measures to safeguard their privacy and security. Additionally, users should
advocate for increased transparency and accountability from entities engaged in tracking,
urging the implementation of stronger laws and regulations that uphold their rights and
interests (MIT News, 2014).

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References:

MIT News. (2014, February 6). Is online privacy possible? | MIT News | Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Retrieved from https://news.mit.edu/2014/is-online-privacy-possible
Brennan Center for Justice. (2019, October 3). Social Media Surveillance by the U.S.
Government. Retrieved from
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/social-media-surveillance-us-
government
wikiHow. (2022, February 13). How to Prevent People from Tracking You on the Internet.
Retrieved from https://www.wikihow.com/Prevent-People-from-Tracking-You-on-the-
Internet
Popular Science. (2020, November 29). How to stop websites from tracking you. Retrieved
from https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/stop-online-trackers-guide/
Ghostery. (2022, November 18). Top 12 Ways to Stop Being Tracked Online. Retrieved from
https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ways-to-stop-being-tracked

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