1/12/15 Collusion

             The speaker, Gary Kovacs, was very clear about his opinion on websites tracking internet users without their consent, and needless to say, he was concerned. He, personally, has a nine year old  daughter, and he set up collusion for her computer, and in two hours, there were already multiple websites stalking her. He was a little freaked out when it happened to him, but when he saw the the websites tracking her, he became angry. Personally, I think they are looking at our information because they want to see if we have a compatible personality for their websites. Also, they use our website history for advertisements on our games and social media accounts. Tracking could be a good thing because with them looking at out information, they could find new and interesting websites for the users to explore, but on the other hand, the trackers could be tapping into our financial history, or personal information and hacking into our bank accounts, or using our information for fraudulence. I wasn't very surprised by how many websites were tracking him, because I was very aware of the internet being an unsafe place to some, but I don't think it's okay, because I'm pretty sure if I downloaded that software, there would be an unfortunate amount of red and grey dots. After watching that, I'm going to be sure to be a lot more careful on the internet.