Data traces [Update 4]
Who are you? Where do you come from? What's your opinion about subject x? To whom have you written the last e-mail? Which browser do you use? What have you really searched, when you came to this website?
You don't know? But I do!
Well, I admit, the teaser is a bit lurid. But I often notice, that the people around me are very naive when they are surfing through the web and leave some data behind. When I am talking to that person and mention the one or the other information, that is really easy to find out for me, the other person is mostly really surprised and is asking me, where to hell I've got this information from. To avoid such situations, I want to write this series of articles, to do some enlightenment and to present marks you are leaving in the web and in real life. And to present what is possible and what can happen to your data.
This series contains the following articles (so far):
- Have you already googeled your boy friend today?
- Call my website and I'll tell you, who you are
- Risks of the Web 2.0
This article was posted in english on 14th of august 2006. Due to technical system attributes the displayed date of this post is the date of the original artice, that was written in german.
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