# Privacy

When doing this activity, I was not sure if I should be surprised or expected the results. After my query of my name on Google, here is what the results showed.

As you can see, the search results are largely about me. I assume that after doing a crawl of the web, as described by Kernighan (2017), the results that showed linked to many of my social media profiles. With my unique name and spelling, I guess that it should not have been surprising.


I have never heard of this search engine and so was curious as to whether the search results would yield similarly to Google. As you can see, however, it did not. I decided to try again by typing in my phone number and that's when the results surprised me.


The site indicated that it found records of the information shown above and blew my mind. Tracking on the internet is something that I am aware of and sometimes joke about with friends, but when something like this is demonstrated, it sends chills down my spine. As Haridy (2019) explained, companies like Facebook can track people accurately by looking at where you logged in with Facebook and looking at what happens on your screen. The immense amount of data that gets generated and passed around online is astounding and the amount of information that can pop up about a person's personal life is a lot more than should be permitted. When looking at "What Every Browser knows about you", I was shocked once again that information can be gathered in real time about what happens on my screen/device. For example, shown below is a screenshot from the website about current hardware information about my computer.


The fact that websites can track what kind of device I am on and how much battery I have left is scary. It leaves me thinking that what I put on the Internet is not the only thing that people can track. Through webpages, people can truly access my computer and find out information stored on here.