What Happens to Your Online Data?

by Vocafy Verificado

Inglês (EUA) B1 15 perguntas Tecnologia

Explore how everyday apps and websites use your information, and discover what privacy choices can—and cannot—change.

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   Who can see these details?

   Maya's profile shows her name and city. Her profile setting says, "Public: anyone can view this profile."

   • Only people on her friends list.
   • Anyone who visits her profile.
   • Only people who live in her city.

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   • Anyone who visits her profile.

   Public information can reach people you have never met, not just your friends.

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   What private information could the photo reveal?

   Leo posts a photo of his new desk. In the background, a delivery box clearly shows his full home address.

   • The password for his shopping account.
   • The number on his payment card.
   • The place where he lives.

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   • The place where he lives.

   Checking the background before posting a photo can help prevent accidental sharing.

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   Your phone's contact list contains your friends' names and phone numbers. Letting an app read this list shares ___.

   • other people's personal details
   • only your own personal details
   • only the app developer's details

   Think about whose information is in the list.

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   Your phone's contact list contains your friends' names and phone numbers. Letting an app read this list shares other people's personal details.

   A permission you give can affect other people's privacy, too.

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   What will happen when you return to the site?

   You add shoes to an online shopping cart and leave the site. The site uses a cookie, a small file, to remember your cart.

   • The shoes will already be paid for.
   • The shoes will still be in your cart.
   • The store will no longer see your cart.

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   • The shoes will still be in your cart.

   Cookies can support useful features, such as remembering a cart or a language setting.

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   How can you share less information and still receive the newsletter?

   A newsletter form requires your email address. Your birthday is optional.

   • Provide your birthday but leave out your email address.
   • Provide both your email address and your birthday.
   • Provide your email address but leave out your birthday.

   Which detail does the service actually need?

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   • Provide your email address but leave out your birthday.

   Optional fields let you decide whether to share extra information.

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   You let a weather app use your current location to show a local forecast. For this feature, you share information about ___.

   • where you are
   • who you call
   • what you buy

   The app needs to know which area's weather to show.

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   You let a weather app use your current location to show a local forecast. For this feature, you share information about where you are.

   A useful feature may involve a privacy trade-off: better local results in return for location data.

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   What can someone learn from this report?

   A bus app publishes the total number of riders on each route. The report includes no names or details about individual trips.

   • Which route a particular person took.
   • Which route carried the most riders.
   • Where a particular person got off.

   The report describes groups, not individual passengers.

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   • Which route carried the most riders.

   Group totals can help improve a service without showing each person's journey.

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   Who else may receive your email address?

   A travel website's privacy notice says, "We may share your email address with partner companies so they can send you offers."

   • Every person who visits the travel website.
   • Only the company that provides your email account.
   • Other companies that work with the travel website.

   Consider what "partner companies" means here.

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   • Other companies that work with the travel website.

   Information given to one service may travel to other businesses, depending on its sharing policy.

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   Where could a copy still remain?

   An online storage service keeps a separate copy of your photos. Its instructions say that deleting a photo from your phone does not delete the online copy. You delete a photo only from your phone.

   • In your online storage.
   • Only on your phone.
   • Nowhere, because both copies were deleted.

   There were two separate copies.

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   • In your online storage.

   Before deleting something, check which copies the action affects; storage services can work differently.

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    Why might you see ads for hiking boots?

    A video app uses your viewing history to select ads. Recently, you watched several videos about hiking.

    • The app has confirmed that you own hiking boots.
    • Your viewing history suggests an interest in hiking.
    • The app knows that you are hiking right now.

    Think about what the videos you watched suggest, even if they do not prove anything.

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    • Your viewing history suggests an interest in hiking.

    Services can guess your interests from your behavior, even if you never state those interests.

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    What does this feature mainly do?

    You use private browsing on a shared computer. After you close all private windows, the browser does not keep those pages in its browsing history.

    • It hides your identity from every website you visit.
    • It hides your online activity from your internet provider.
    • It hides your browsing history from later users of that computer.

    Think about where the history is not being saved.

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    • It hides your browsing history from later users of that computer.

    Private browsing limits records on the device; it does not make you invisible online.

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    A chat app removes a photo after it is viewed, but the person receiving it can save a screenshot. This means the photo ___.

    • can exist outside the chat
    • must disappear from every device
    • can only be seen by its sender

    A screenshot creates another copy.

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    A chat app removes a photo after it is viewed, but the person receiving it can save a screenshot. This means the photo can exist outside the chat.

    A disappearing-message feature cannot guarantee that the person receiving a message will not keep a copy.

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    What does this protection mean?

    Your connection to an online store is encrypted: the information is protected while it travels between your browser and the store.

    • The store cannot read the information you send it.
    • The connection helps keep your information private during its journey.
    • The store will never share your information with another company.

    Notice when the protection applies.

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    • The connection helps keep your information private during its journey.

    A protected connection does not tell you how the store uses your information after it arrives.

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    What could help the services connect your two accounts?

    Two services share their user records with each other. You use a different screen name on each service, but both records contain the same email address.

    • The screen names, because they are different.
    • A home address that neither record contains.
    • The email address that appears in both records.

    Look for a detail the two records have in common.

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    • The email address that appears in both records.

    Different screen names may not keep accounts separate when another personal detail matches.

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    What changes when you turn off this sharing setting?

    A fitness app lets you stop sharing activity data with advertisers. The setting says the app will still collect activity data to show your own progress.

    • The app still records your activity but stops sending it to advertisers.
    • The app stops recording all new activity.
    • The app erases all activity data that advertisers received earlier.

    Collecting information and sharing it are different actions.

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    • The app still records your activity but stops sending it to advertisers.

    Stopping future sharing does not necessarily stop collection or remove copies already shared.