Commercial tracking software often secretly records where users
go on the Internet. If businesses don't set their own clear,
simple privacy standards, government may need to step in with a
'do not track' option. The ease and speed with which people can
share information over the Internet is perhaps the marvel of
this era. The way they live and work is changing rapidly, posing
new opportunities and new hazards. One area undergoing massive
change is personal privacy. Fluid exchanges of information mean
that more knowledge about people’s lives can be shared than they
realize or desire. Facebook and Google are two Web giants that
have recently faced criticism for playing fast and loose with
information about their users. A significant number of apps –
small software applications that users download onto their
iPhones or other smart phones – have been shown to be
surreptitiously collecting information on their users, such as
the person’s location or their list of contacts. Meanwhile, the
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