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What is data privacy? Websites that you visit collect what type of information about you?

Computing Safety & Ethics

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Data privacy refers to the protection of personal data and sensitive information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.

Websites collect the information such as :

  1. IP addresses of the user's computer (user's location).
  2. Information about usage of website. For example, what users click on and how much time they spend on a page.
  3. Information about browsers and device used to access the sites.
  4. Browsing activity across different sites.

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