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information displayed to your personal interests. You can prohibit most
web browsers from allowing cookies as a breach of your privacy, but doing
so limits some of the functionality of websites.
If privacy is an asset, then the ultimate form of the asset is identity,
and the associated crime is known as identity the. An attacker commits
identity the by impersonating someone else. is form of crime does not
require computers, but computers and the Internet have signicantly con-
tributed to its prevalence. Cybercriminals can search the Internet to locate
things like Social Security numbers, bank accounts, and ...