written by Julia D.

Digital identity, you leave one almost every where, it is the identity you can make by just searching the web. Google save your information that you leave by searching about any thing for a total of 8 months, and it’s not that hard to look at them if you know how. Hackers could get your credit card number, phone number, name, age, and date of birth. Sometimes people tracked can be bad, but other times it’s what people need to find the source of a bad use of the internet. If you are tracked by a website and the website is hacked then the hackers can easily access all your info, but if you aren’t tracked and you do something bad with the information you lost an opportunity to stop them.

I think that the idea of erasing things is good and bad, because if someone uses that information for the wrong reason then if it had been there it could have been stopped? Then again if your memory is saved, and people take that information and send you tons of random things about the stuff you search that you don’t really need; that’s a bad feature about saving the information.

The second article is an explanation of most sides of the story about anonymously searching the web. She allows you to see everyone’s perspective of it, which is nice if you want a better understanding of the concept. This makes it easy to make an argument for either side, good or bad.

It would be a good idea for a person with a medical condition, because once they see that you searched a type of medicine then you will most likely get a ton of SPAM that you don’t necessarily want in your inbox.

The idea to an employer wouldn’t be good though because maybe one of their employee’s is using it to look up another rival companies phone/email to switch to that job. If that was one of your top employee’s than the anonymously searching the web proposal might be something that you wouldn’t want to do.

An employee might think of it as a good idea though because if you are working and you are looking up another job you most likely don’t want your employer to see that. So the idea of it erasing all that you searched might be good to an unhappy employee.

There are many different opinions to this concept, and they all have ups and downs. So for right now it is pretty even with deciding whether it is good or bad, but I believe that as long as you are using it for the right reasons and not putting it to bad use it should be OK.

Articles:

http://lifehacker.com/software/anonymity/search-the-web-anonymously-with-askeraser-332574.php

http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb/a/anonymous.htm