Journal of Medical Informatics 2009;30(8):31-33

Analysis on Privacy Issues of Computer and Internet

Qingyue GONG

Keywords

Privacy protection; Web privacyseal; P3P; Cookie; Spybots

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Computer and Internet become a great threat to personal privacy. The paper introduces several forms of how computer and Internet threaten personal privacy, such as drive-by installation, webbug, electronic payment mechanism, as well as other computer or network application with potential privacy destruction, and provides some policies for protecting privacy, including improving legal system, applying websites privacy seal, etc.