Abstract: . . .  look for certain things in peoples e-mail then they would be considered an Internet service provider. Consequently, the workload and resources of this institution would also increase. For example, a person who received a threatening message forwarded a message to a SA. As of March 1997, this is still under investigation. The police officer on the case filed for a search warrant to view an Internet service providers e-mail logs. But, by policy, this message would never have been noticed by any SA because, in theory, they are not allowed to search for specific . . .
. . .  March 31, 1997 Caught in the Web : Privacy and the Internet John Wong University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Sociology Honors Thesis Page 2 Acknowledgments There have been numerous people who have helped me with this . . .
. . .  trace the steps of a previous user. Every 20 seconds, the Magellan Voyeur page gives a random sampling of keywords that other visitors to the site are requesting from the Magellan search engine. Click on these links and you can see the results of someone else's searches. (Hawn, 1997) Privacy concerns are evident since many people do not believe that their inquiries about certain topics would be made public. Although not every search engine does this, it is common that companies keep a record of peoples Internet use. Although it may not seem like . . .
. . .  be violated. E-mail messages would be harder to trace. Breaking laws would be easier if there was complete anonymity. For example, a user could send an e-mail Page 33 29 advertisement about child pornography and would not worry about getting caught. Sending threatening letters would also be easier. A death threat to the president would be untraceable. Flaming or verbally abusing someone over e-mail may increase. Thus, laws and policies would be harder to enforce if a person could shield his identity. But, protecting . . .
. . .  person visits a companys website. Thus a Cookie acts like a counter. Marx (1988) argued that the new surveillanceis likely to increase the power of large organizations. That is, companies with the resources and knowledge are able to monitor the number of times a person visits their website and thus could sell this  . . .
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