Summary: A Gift Of Fire By Sara Baase

INTRODUCTION

A Gift of Fire book by Sara Baase did mention that privacy has three key aspects. First is freedom from intrusion which means being left alone. Then control of information about oneself without other acquaintance and the last one is freedom from surveillance or to make it more clear free from being followed, tracked, watched and eavesdropped (Baase, 2012). Privacy on the web is freedom from being tracked while using web. Talk about surfing on web, using of web browser is necessarily. This paper discusses on the browser privacy features. There are some privacy features provided by most browsers such privacy mode, cookies control and object control. We stress on the privacy mode in different web browser and the risk that can prevented

This permits a person to browse the Web without storing local information that could be recovered later. The primary inspiration driving a privacy mode is to allow users to browse without leaving information trails on their PCs and hide their identity from website they visit. In other word is to prevent from local and web attacker (Aggarwal, Bursztein, Jackson, & Boneh, 2010). In the typical course of Web surfing, browser record and hold a considerable measure of data provincially on user’s PCs. Browser save visited Web sites in the browsing history, downloaded files in the download history and search terms in search history (Meeks, 2009). Browser can likewise spare the information wrote into online structures (including passwords) and cached renditions of documents that may be required again sooner rather than later. The privacy modes in each of the browser mean to diminish the local storage of these sorts of data, giving expanded privacy on shared

Cookies are little information documents that sites send to your program and can make utilizing the web simpler, for example, putting away your inclinations. However, cookies additionally allow organizations to track your developments over the web. Cached pages are put away duplicates of sites you have as of late gone to. They are utilized to enhance your framework's execution additionally may be gotten to by unapproved clients. One of the least difficult ways to ensure yourself online is dependably make certain you are utilizing the most recent rendition of your browser. To ensure your security you can debilitate some or every one of these elements. Also, a few programs bolster the capacity to physically delete any put away information, or consequently eradicate put away information each time you close your program. At last most browsers support a privacy mode where all information accumulation is killed, including storing, treats, and history. This guarantees no data is gathered about your perusing exercises; notwithstanding, this can likewise restrict your capacity to connect with a few locales. Check your program's protection settings to change any of these elements. At long last, at whatever connection are in encryption mode. These steps to guarantee your online movement can't be checked or caught.