Who’s Watching You Online?

 

Hide Your IP And Avoid Being Tracked Online

 

If  you think that while you’re browsing, maybe doing a little shopping or checking the news, that you aren’t identifying yourself and no-ones watching what you do, then you’re probably mistaken.  A new survey recently released shows how most of us are being tracked while we’re online, and we don’t realise it.  The survey looked at nearly two hundred high-traffic websites, the kind most of us will regularly use.  Amazingly more than half of these websites shared the visitors username or user ID with another website.  In other words, they took some information about the user, and passed it on to someone else – unknown to the user.  Sites doing this are big, popular sites – like Google and Facebook.  This confirms to me that I was right when I made the choice to find an easy way to change my IP and protect my identity online.

Track Me Online – Why Should I Worry?

So big sites are gathering information about me and my browsing habits, maybe even my username or user ID, and passing it on to other companies without me realising.  Why should I care?  Well, for a start, it’s being done without my knowledge, or consent.  More companies than you or I probably thought, are sharing our personal information with third-party websites and companies, and we don’t know who they are, or when it’s happening.  Things like our email address, username, what we’ve just been browsing, what we browsed next, that kind of thing.  In doing so, they are able to build up a profile for every  user – that’s you and me – which can then be sold on to other companies.  Marketing companies then use this information to build up a  detailed profile of you. The solution I use to avoid this, is to change my IP, it’s so easy to do that’s it’s a no brainer.

Change My IP – Track Me If You Can )

You might not have a problem with this, thinking it just means you get better advertising targeting at you.  If you don’t have a problem with companies building a profile about you, logging what you watch, your user ID, what sites you visit, that’s fine.  But what if this makes you feel uncomfortable, the thought of being ‘spied’ on like this?  In that case, it’s time to change your IP, and start protecting your identity when you’re online.  There are simple software solutions to help you do this, that protect your identity at the click of a button.  Not only do they protect you when you’re browsing, they protect whatever other software you use that’s connected online as well.  Your entire internet connection becomes hidden, behind a new IP address that’s unrelated to you.  So there’s no way any marketing company can build up a profile of your online life, or get your user IDs.  To check my IP I used ip location finder – geolocation as a software solution to this problem, and can absolutely recommend it.  I found it to work seamlessly in the background – once you click the connection, you really don’t know it’s running.  I can use my internet connection just as you normally would, the only difference is – I know my online identity is protected.

So what do I think about these sites that track me when I’m online?  Time to change my IP, that’s all )

Health Informatics & Inform System – Assignment 4

1.       Discuss at least 3 reasons for using CPOE (computerized patient order entry) (Refer to Article 1 and 2 of the resources. Consider both when building your arguments. feel free to use your own or researched examples if needed).

2.       There are many different EMRs available in the marketplace. What attributes of an EMR make it more suitable than the others for each of the following sizes of practice (a set of attributes for each size practice below):

  • small practices,
  • large multi-specialty groups or community hospitals, and
  • multi-hospital systems?

I expect 3 pages of fact-based material to answer these questions.

Paper should be APA formatted with citation.

CC W 3 D

 Select from the following list Six (6) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.  The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 3 & 4  (Jamsa, 2013).Chapter 3 topics:

  • Define and describe PaaS.
  • List the benefits of PaaS solutions.
  • Describe potential disadvantages of PaaS.
  • Describe how a cloud-based database management system differs from an on-site database.
  • List the computing resources normally provided with a PaaS.

Chapter 4 topics:

  • Define and describe IaaS.
  • Define and describe system redundancy. Discuss how you might use IaaS to implement a redundancy plan.
  • Define and describe load balancing. Discuss how you might use IaaS to implement load balancing.
  • Define and describe NAS. Assume you must implement a shared file system within the cloud. What company would you select? Why? What costs should your client expect to pay for cloud-based data on a gigabyte (GB) basis?
  • Define and describe colocation. Discuss how you might use IaaS to implement colocation.
  • Compare and contrast a cloud-based disk storage device (with a file system) with a cloud based database.
  • Compare and contrast physical, dedicated virtual, and shared virtual servers. Search the web for companies that provide each. What cost should a customer expect to pay for each?

NOTE: You are required to use at least two-peer reviewed sources (besides your textbook) to answer the above questions. 

research paper

 

Blockchain continues to be deployed into various businesses and industries. As noted in this week’s reading, Blockchain is not without problems.  Several challenges have already been associated with the use of this technology.  Identify at least 5 key challenges and potential solutions.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately 3-5 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

• Follow APA guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

• Support your response with the readings from the course and at least five peer-reviewed articles or scholarly journals to support your positions, claims, and observations.  The UC Library is a great place to find resources.

• Be clear with well-written, concise, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

web design

Review your storyboard before beginning this thread. The use of CSS can help to streamline your development process. For this discussion define what elements you would control with CSS and why. Are there instances where you would need to use more than one style sheet for a site? Explain how you might use multiple style sheets or various kinds of styles (inline, embedded, external).

GPS Devices

Need a word document with 500-700 word, double spaced paper, written in APA format, showing sources and a bibliography on GPS devices along with references.