Are you comfortable surfing the internet in the privacy of your own home? Chances are there is some sort of website tracking going on in order to target specific marketing to you. According to PC World, "Some of the information sent back by tracking cookies includes information that could be used to identify you. As Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer has pointed out, many sites deliver personally identifiable information (like email addresses) as part of the referring URL sent back to Web trackers."
When it comes to social networking or shopping, it is almost accepted that you may be tracked. But when can it cross the line? According to the McGill Daily, "The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has publicly criticized plans to bring back legislation that would expand the legal tools of the state to conduct online surveillance." How far is too far? Should the government have full access to your identity? According to Network World, "the FBI is about to roll out a nationwide facial recognition system with a goal of matching a name to every unidentified face in photos."
Is the land of the internet fair game or are these practices of collecting your information too invasive?