Couple decades ago internet privacy was not that big problem as today. We
can go online anytime we want, and we visit a lot of websites during each day. There
are millions of websites that asks us for our personal information. Everyone wants
to be sure that this private information will stays private. Social media is
the one of the ways when personal confidential information becomes public. All us
know that it even became an issue for the founder of Facebook. One of the pictures
that belongs to Randi Zuckerberg accidently became public. Of course, they were
not happy about it. Everybody agrees that personal information must be
protected.
This problem also relates to companies. Banks has huge clients’ database.
Also, everyone heard about hackers’ attacks on banks, when a lot of personal
information were stolen. Joe Nocera talks in his article “The Wild West of
Privacy” about data brokers. They collect hundred different data point and
create scores and profiles that they sell to anyone who wants to buy them. And next
time when we give our personal information to anyone we want to be sure that it’s
not going to be sold anywhere. Even government
is not hundred percent protected. Periodically we hear from the news that
government information was stolen. I think today every internet user should
carefully consider what information he wants to send via email or social media
and which not.
Omg so trueeee. The biggest breach was with Experian. Privacy and confidentiality is a delicate line when it comes to social media.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. This is why I am extremely mindful of what I post on my social media accounts. You honestly never know who is taking your information, and what they are using it for. It is scary, and people need to be more aware of what personal information they put out there. Many people are like an open book. It would be ashamed if something bad happened in terms of privacy and confidentiality.
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