Who wants to track you?
- The government and law enforcement
- Private companies (to sell you things and learn your shopping habits)
- Criminals (to learn your patterns)
- Friends, family and potential friends (“Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life.”)
- Stalkers
How can you be tracked?
- Data traces left on your computer (e.g. browsing history, browser cache)
- Interactions with your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- “Like” buttons and advertisements
- Browser toolbars
- Keyloggers
- Logs on the websites you visit
- Wifi (and wired) snooping
- Mysterious shadowy government projects that may or may not exist
Scary Elaborations, and what to do: Local privacy, Online privacy, and Legislation