Internet privacy

virtual network extending a single private network across a public network like the Internet, appearing to users as a private network

An HTTP cookie is a small block of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user's device during a session.

thumb|Schematic depicting an intranet An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders. The term is used in contrast to public networks, such as the Internet, but uses the same technology based on the Internet protocol suite.

computer server that makes and receives requests on behalf of a user

thumb|A fictional example of a doxing post on social media. In this case, the victim's personal name and address are shown.

legal concept

WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) was a publicly searchable database that linked anonymous edits on Wikipedia to the organizations where those edits apparently originated. It did this by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses, though it did not investigate edits made under a username. It was created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 13, 2007.

privacy feature in some web browsers

cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties

one's unique set of traceable digital activities

personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via Internet

social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites

malicious situation created or unwanted manner provided data from a Domain Name Server (DNS)

August 2014 computer security incident which led to the leaking of celebrity photographs

A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change. The cypherpunk movement originated in the late 1980s and gained traction with the establishment of the "Cypherpunks" electronic mailing list in 1992, where informal groups of activists, technologists, and cryptographers discussed strategies to enhance individual privacy and resist state or corporate surveillance. Deeply libertarian in philosophy, the movement is rooted in principles of decentralization, individual autonomy, and free

processing that examines network data

method using server metrics for a served unobtrusive file to ascertain whether a page has been loaded and by whom

protocol to run DNS queries over HTTPS

media coverage of the shortcomings of Facebook's market dominance

information collected about a remote computing device for the purpose of full or partial identification

A friend-to-friend (F2F) computer network is a type of peer-to-peer network in which users only make direct connections with people they know. Passwords or digital signatures can be used for authentication.

CryptoParty (Crypto-Party) is a grassroots global endeavour to introduce the basics of practical cryptography such as the Tor anonymity network, I2P, Freenet, key signing parties, disk encryption and virtual private networks to the general public. The project primarily consists of a series of free public workshops.

online service

open source social networking service

Privoxy is a free non-caching web proxy with filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, manipulating cookies and modifying web page data and HTTP headers before the page is rendered by the browser. Privoxy is a "privacy enhancing proxy", filtering web pages and removing advertisements. Privoxy can be customized by users, for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. Privoxy can be chained to other proxies and is frequently used in combination with Squid among others and can be used to bypass Internet censorship.

encryption of email messages to protect the content from being read by entities other than the intended recipients

means by which advertising inventory is bought and sold on a per-impression basis, via programmatic instantaneous auction

Internet slang

client-side data storage in web browsers

the act of influencing, controlling, enhancing, or concealing of an individual's or group's reputation

routing protocol

communications protocol

The DeGoogle movement (also called the de-Google movement) is a grassroots campaign that has spawned as privacy advocates urge users to stop using Google products entirely due to growing privacy concerns regarding the company.

anonymous communicating between two entities

various processes to unblock censored materials on the Internet

practice by which operators of websites collect, store and share information about a particular user's activity on the World Wide Web

piece of data that websites using Adobe Flash may store on a user’s computer

HTTP header field that requests web applications to disable individual user tracking

data privacy, involving the right of mandating personal privacy concerning storing, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet

browser fingerprinting technique

system that, when connecting to another system, attempts to encrypt the communications channel, otherwise falling back to unencrypted communications

PRQ is a Swedish Internet service provider and web hosting company created in 2004.

form of online targeted advertising

ethics of mass data analytics

refuge for uninterrupted or unregulated data

Computer networking concept

subset of internet privacy that deals with user data being collected by search engines

term used by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States

extension to IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi)

connection between two remote computers

type of virtual private network for mobile devices

security flaw revealing DNS requests

Digitalcourage – known until November 2012 as FoeBuD () – is a German privacy and digital rights organisation. Under the motif of preserving "a world worth living in the digital age", Digitalcourage campaigns for civil and human rights, consumer protection, privacy, freedom of information and related issues. The group has links with organisations such as the German Working Group against Data Retention () and the Chaos Computer Club, and it is a member of the umbrella organisation European Digital Rights.

domain name registrar service

e.g. Authenticating.com

cryptographic protocol for group communications

American entrepreneur