Behavioral Tracking Summary

Leading into this, Social media isn't even safe anymore. You now always have to watch what you do on social media, one mistake can lead to a horrible life or years. One the same side, just different and a statistic, the article "Are You Being Watched?", also tells us about tracking out social medias. " A recent study found that 75 percent of the 500 most popular websites use tracking tools... Tracking is legal, but the idea that our online activities are being recorded to upsetting to many Americans.

Although children find software useful , parents should monitor their kids software for two main reasons. First, children can be cyber bullied . But most importantly, children can be in danger of pedophile. Be sure to talk to your kids about the dangers of the internet. As a parent you should always make sure you can easily see what your kids are doing online. To be able to see if there following the rules and

Parents can also have a more direct role in monitoring the technology that their children use. There are multiple options available to parents, including tools and software designed specifically to protect juveniles from online predators. One popular tool is the Net Nanny, which allows parents to monitor everything that happens on the computer and can limit the access a person has to online activities based on the specified settings (Cohen-Almagor, 197). Another method available is the Engine for Relationship Analysis (ERA), which monitors, analyzes, and assesses online relationships as they develop (Cohen-Almagor, 197). This tool could be effective with preteens and teens as it allows more freedom than the Net Nanny, but still keeps parents informed of any potential issue. The ERA is used to analyze instant messaging platforms, which would be an effective method to track as using email would stifle the conversation and there would be a greater risk for the predator of being caught. This type of prevention would work well with addressing the issue of having a capable guardian concerning Routine Activities

Laws that give you the power to chick yes, let me in this site, which gives trackers permission to enter your data. Or no, which gives them websites that they would have to alter with to get to your information. There are other ways to track a consumer, cell phones, cars, etc. Tracking could be a good thing in some cases. Such as finding a missing child, getting directions, or finding a criminal.

In the article “ Should you spy on your kids” by Nick Wingfield, the article talks about of how parents is checking out teenagers social media. In the beginning, the article mentions the center survey prove the percentage of parents that have being tracking their own childrens because, parents wants their children’s to be safe. Moreover, the article states that the reason why children’s, being on the internet is because, they want to enjoyment themselves and communicating with other friends. Finally, the article explain that parents should not spy on their kids because, it affected their privacy. In this essay I will discuss the idea of parents spy on their kids,I will also analyze of why parents should not spy on their kids to help with the problem of privacy.

At the end of the two-week Tracking exercise, you will be given individual feedback results based on your experience tracking supportive behaviors.

Do you like saving money and a great experience at big box stores like Target, Walmart and Home Depot? Tracking customers is becoming more and more popular for stores in the United States. Currently, retailers are using cameras and smart phones to learn about their customers’ shopping experience and tendencies. Critics would say that you can’t be in privacy, but stores should be allowed to spy on customers. The customers are rewarded and warned.

The debate about online tracking is referencing the monitoring of customers' actions on their electronic devices, by organizations. Many customers feel that the organizations are invading their privacy, while organizations argue that they are just collecting information to aid in their advertising campaigns and what ads show up on a customer's device. There is a lot of grey area in this particular debate because there are always going to be those who try to violate the rules and regulations.

In the B2C market, Search Alert will be the first company with the technology that sends parents reports of their children’s internet usage. However, Search Alert will be competing against existing technologies that include, internet blockers and Windows 10 internet browsing detection. Internet blockers can be set up by parents in order to automatically filter websites that do not allow their children to visit certain sites. Windows 10 internet browsing detection can be set up by parents so they can view their child’s usage on their windows 10 device ("Reporting on Internet Browsing History by Site, Date, and Time").

Today, technology is available for all sorts of our needs. Technology exists for parents to track their kids in all kinds of ways, but that does not mean that they should. While there is no way to fully prevent children from getting into trouble, respecting children and giving them some degree of privacy is also important. Communication is an important factor in these situations. This allows a stronger relationship with them based on mutual trust, instead of them seeing a parent simply as an evil dictator who they must work to avoid. Trusting and communicating with a child is more essential than losing their trust by invading their privacy by tracking or heavily monitoring them.

“Internet, mobility, and multimedia are important technology tools that are used in education industry” (Hameed 372).Although the internet is an important tool in the classroom and out, it does have downsides. Websites have become more commercialized, and this has made searching through websites difficult since not all websites are reliable. In the Journal done by Shihab Hameed he says that statistics show that teenagers use the internet more than adults, they use the internet to play games, listen to music and meet new people. Hameed also mentions that it reduces student activity. Students are able to get solutions to homework and as result

When social media sites first started the users had lots of control over what others could see and how published information would be distributed, however as time and user numbers have increased companies found it profitable to sell certain information and demographics to paying companies. These companies are the ones paying to keep social media sites up and running. Someone must financially support the growing social media companies and since it is free to users, marketing companies are paying for our history and surfing information. While that may be the best solution for these social media companies it is not the best solution for users. There should be an option to pay for use instead of being tracked and stalked. After all what is the price of privacy? While not everyone would take advantage of this privacy ‘buyout’ the option should be available. Even without that option, it should be the user’s decision to either accept that data tracking is happening, or have it turned off for the general profile. Before you enter a site that tracks and sells browsing history there should be a warning label of sorts. As social media companies continue to increase both the size of their market, and

Social media is more and more used to make presumptions and decisions about people. If I get to know someone I will go to Google and try to find out what can be found instead of waiting how all info itself will arouse by time passing. It’s debatable if it is ethical to spy about people in social networks because behavioral patterns witnessed there belong more to private sphere. But if person is willingly giving away his rights to privacy?  Also we seldom think of privacy issues when applying for “bonus” card to get 5% discount. It seems that sometimes people need to be protected against themselves and until there are no new and relevant social norms aroused, this is were policymakers should puzzle and offer solutions. Of course the balance is a key issue.

Some parents are not aware of dangers of internet that brings to their children particularly making friends through internet. For example, their children might get cheated with someone else on internet and their children will not tell what happen to them when they encounter danger. According to BBC News, a 47 year old man defrauded a 13 year old girl online and asked to meet face to face. Luckily, the girl’s mother found out beforehand or else her daughter might be in danger. From this news, we can see that there internet friends are not always honest and they are more likely to consider as un-trustful strangers. Therefore, parents should concern more about their children, teach them about the dangers of making friends on internet, and avoid them from going out with a stranger.

Internet safety has been an extensive issue for children and adolescents since accuse to the Internet has become readily available in homes. With Internet use increasing at such rapid rates and a large proportion of adolescents using the Internet daily, the awareness of Internet safety should be addressed. The term Internet safety can be defined as “the knowledge of maximizing an individuals safety to private information, and self protection from using the Internet”. The impact and influence that the Internet has on adolescent life is far-reaching and research findings by Norris (2007) indicate that one-quarter of the American youth that go online at home, do so in the privacy of their rooms. Additionally, with the recent trend of wireless connections there has been a profound expansion in private Internet usage. The diverse means by which adolescents are using the Internet has become coupled with inherent risks of unsupervised and uneducated use.