Amy is doing some online research for a term paper. She'd like to access some information on a particular website, but the website is asking her to put in her email address before allowing her to view the information. She wonders what the website owner will do with that information, but there is never any way for her to know how data collected via a website will be used. True? orFalse?

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Marcel Callahan

Social Studies

7 July, 18:30

Amy is doing some online research for a term paper. She'd like to access some information on a particular website, but the website is asking her to put in her email address before allowing her to view the information. She wonders what the website owner will do with that information, but there is never any way for her to know how data collected via a website will be used. True? orFalse?

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Josue Peck · Answer 1

She wonders what the website owner will do with that information, but there is never any way for her to know how data collected via a website will be used.

False

Explanation:

All websites on the internet are required to specify how they will use the personal information of the people who are using their website.

This is something that the websites usually keep hidden from the plain sight and is hard to find but that is not to say it is not there as the law requires any company that asks for such information to also put up the disclaimer warning the people about what they could be doing with the data that they are gathering.

Thus she has a way of knowing.