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Vale Middle School – Reading Article

THE INTERNET IS SPYING ON YOU

Notes on my thoughts,

all cookies at least once a week. In addition, turning on the “private browsing”

reactions and questions as I

feature included in most popular Web browsers will block tracking technologies from

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installing themselves on your machine. For fees ranging from $9.95 to $10,000,

companies like ReputationDefender can remove your personal information from up

to 90 percent of commercial websites. But it’s basically impossible to eradicate

personal information, such as property records and police files, from government

databases. “There’s really no solution now, except abstinence” from the Internet,

says Lt. Col. Greg Conti, a computer science professor at West Point. “And if you

choose not to use online tools, you’re really not a member of the 21st century.”

Source: The , Sept. 10, 2010

1. Describe a danger associated with being spied upon via the internet.

2. In two sentences, summarize the message the author is trying to convey by writing this article.

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