According to an article from The Globe and Mail, the days of privacy and anonymity are gone. A research project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco has made some startling discoveries.
“The most alarming result of the study of more than 470,000 Web surfers is that 83.6 per cent of them had an instantly identifiable, totally unique fingerprint: Their particular combination of settings and information was unlike that of any other user, increasing the chance they could be personally identified, even though they had done nothing but make a few clicks of the mouse.”
After reading this report, are you concerned about your online privacy? What is your reaction to the findings of the study? Do you agree or disagree with any statements made in the article? What will you do, if anything, to be safe on the internet? Will you make any changes? What does it mean to be “transparent” and what is the problem with this transparency? Does it concern you? How?