E-Business: Privacy Concerns and Data Collection

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Answer to question number 1
The internet service providers can trace the web data such as cookies and locations
easily. The website collects the data such as the internet services across the continents and the
indexing across the globe. The global traffic index is also collected that show the index data
across Asia, Europe, Australia and America ("EBSCO Connect", 2019). The router across
various regions of the world are traced and result is being displayed by the website. The data
of the common public using the internet is being traced and used for the review of the data
and performing analysis on them. This can hamper the privacy of the confidential financial
data stored by the users on their system. These can be compromised and used for theft and
misuse by the third party organizations accessing the data ("EBSCO Connect", 2019). As per
the website the data is used for tracing the hackers and the mal practitioners, however,
various type of common users are hampered as their data is being utilized during this process
as it is potentially difficult to identify a hacker and a non-hacker. Hence, the process surely
conducts beach of privacy for the users.
Answer to question number 2
The next pieces of the data that are to be collected by websites are clickTracks
(collects the website traffic analysis data form the systems of the users), coremetrics (captures
all the customer and visitor clickstream activity). Additionally the tools such as Nedstat
provides the information about the websites visited from a website and the number of times
the website is visited from that particular system ("EBSCO Connect", 2019). Additionally the
customer interactions are also captured by various type of websites to perform the analysis on
the collected data. The server data logs are also captured by several websites for their
benefits. Extensive data such as a visit of a website and the time of visit by the user is also
stored in the system of web analytics tool capturing the data. Additionally there are tools such