5.2.1

Online Activity Tracking

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Online Activity Tracking

Many people have concerns about how their online activity is tracked. It is now easy to track activity such as:

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Websites you have visited

  • Using cookies, it is possible to track your Internet history.
  • Advertisers sometimes use this to show you relevant adverts.
  • There is a lack of regulations about tracking data, which has led to some companies tracking data without permission.
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Search terms you have used

  • Your search terms are tracked, and often used in marketing.
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What you have purchased

  • Purchased items are often recorded and sold to advertisers who might wish to advertise similar products to you.

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1Components of a Computer

2Software & Software Development

3Exchanging Data

4Data Types, Data Structures & Algorithms

5Legal, Moral, Cultural & Ethical Issues

6Elements of Computational Thinking

6.1Thinking Abstractly

6.2Thinking Procedurally

6.3Thinking Logically

7Problem Solving & Programming

8Algorithms

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