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﻿ Privacy and Anonymity


 * Privacy** is the sbility of individuals and groups to determine for themselves when, haw and to what extent information about themselves is shared with others. At its exterme, privacy becomes **anonymity** when, for instance, a person usees it to conceal his or her true identity in oreder to cyber-bully someone else. Conversely, exessive privacy could also conceal the perpetrators of criminal, terrorist or computer hacking actsfrom law inforcement agencies.



Privacy is used in places such as Banks, Hospitals, Internet and Businesses
 * < [[image:kom7.gif width="314" height="357"]] ||< Why people want privacy on the internet: * to allow very limted amount of info to be released
 * worried that they might be spyed on by hackers
 * Too much of their infromation could be used against them

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[|Beats by Dr Dre] || media type="youtube" key="5PlofmoUu8s?fs=1" height="385" width="640" People take advantage of this to misuse IT systems to their benefits or to completely hide their identity. [|BlackBerry Anonymity] || ||
 * To be anonymous is when your name is unknown or you lack individuality. You are just a somebody.