Free Online Privacy Training 101
  • Online Privacy Training
  • About this online privacy training course
  • Contents
  • Introduction
    • Disclaimer
  • Modules
    • 1. Online Privacy: an introduction
      • Lesson 1: Understanding the Digital Landscape
      • Lesson 2: Privacy Policies & User Agreements
    • 2. Privacy Basics and Background
      • Lesson 1: The Public You vs. The Private You
      • Lesson 2: Dissecting Your Digital Footprint: Data and Metadata
      • Lesson 3: Tracking (Cookies, Link Tracking and Data Aggregation)
        • Part 1: Cookies
        • Part 2: Link Tracking
        • Part 3: Data Aggregation
      • Lesson 4: Proprietary vs. Open Source
    • 3. Privacy Architecture
      • Lesson 1: Privacy Architecture
      • Lesson 2: Operating System Layer
      • Lesson 3: Networking Layer
      • Lesson 4: Application Layer and Above
      • Privacy Architecture Summary
    • 4. Private Messaging with Signal Messenger
    • 5. Private Browsing
    • 6. Data Encryption, User Name and Password Management
      • Lesson 1: User Name and Password Best Practices
      • Lesson 2: USB Disk Encryption
      • Lesson 3: Password Management with KeePassX
    • 7. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
    • 8. Private Email
    • Summary
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  1. Modules
  2. 2. Privacy Basics and Background

Lesson 3: Tracking (Cookies, Link Tracking and Data Aggregation)

Lesson covers identity tracking methods, cookies, link tracing, data aggregation.

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Tracking is one of the most important concepts to understand with when it comes to online privacy. In the context of this training, we define tracking as the use of various techniques to record users and their online behavior.

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Cookies
Link Tracking
Data Aggregation