2004•IEEE Security & PrivacyRequires access

Online monitoring: security or social control?

M.A. Caloyannides

Abstract

Imagine your big brother habitually following you around "for your own good" and snooping into everything that you, a mature adult, choose to do. Now imagine discovering that he couldn't do so if you wore blue socks rather than brown. Wouldn't you switch to blue socks as a matter of principle? Online monitoring today presents a similar situation. You can indeed modify your online conduct to preserve your privacy almost as easily as you can change socks.

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Key concepts: SOCKS, Brother, Internet privacy, Computer security, Control (management), Computer science, Advertising, Business