Privacy on the Web.

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Count the number of open source programs you are using on your computer today. How many commercial software programs could be replaced with free and open source alternatives. I counted 4 commercial products on my system. If you need to, use a browser to get a list of open source programs which are available in place of commercial software.

Think about the words “open”, “community”, “cooperation”, compare them to the words “share”, “like”, “social data”. How do they compare. Where could these concepts ultimately end up. What media are you using that compromises your personal data, count the programs and devices. Try to be specific regarding services that collect your private data and reflect on how much this concerns you. I use 2 services that are notorious for collecting private data.

 

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@wade_764

What’s the big deal – Privacy on the Web

I was particularly interested in this web assignment because I love technology! For the first half of the work, I was asked to count the

@UMWdan

Open Sources

This assignment was pretty cool. As a CS major, I end up downloading a lot of neat things for classes, or someone in a class mentions

@NickSebenaler

Privacy On The Web!

I take my privacy and security very seriously when talking about going online. I counted a lot of commercial products on my computer but I

@stherria1

Web Assignments – Privacy on the Web

I found this assignment extremely interesting. The first part of the assignment asked us to think about open source tools:

Count the number of open source

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