Eddy Ortiz
English. 838
03/26/2013
Jeramy Wallace
Our privacy through out the web
The development of the internet started in the year 1957 and it has been evolving through out time so that it can make our life easier by providing us with information that we need. As of today, many people use the internet to buy things that they want or need, communicating through out e-mails, applying for jobs, apartments, giving out your personal information so the companies can confirm that you are the right person so you wont be able to scam and so they can keep you in their records in case other companies need information about you. By giving out your personal information over the internet, it gives other people the opportunity to look through your information even if you don't want to give it out to them by either being hacked or by other companies selling your information to other companies there for putting your privacy out there to who ever needs it. Today, many people give out their information thinking that it is safe and that no one else can obtain it except for the companies that they applied for. In Social Media Privacy: A Contradiction In Terms? walks us through how our private information is in jeopardy.
Companies use your information so they can know what to sell you by submitting, checking in, the places that you go, browsing the web for your interests or completing surveys. Facebook is a good source to extract personal information out of someone by asking it whenever they create an account in order for other people that use Facebook can recognize you. In Social Media Privacy: A Contradiction In Terms?,Naomi Troni says, "For companies and brands, consumer data has the potential to be both a goldmine and a minefield, as Facebook has been discovering. To use the popular social networking site, consumers have to create a profile with real information about themselves, and have to log on every time they use it; this makes Facebook a treasure trove of personal information" (2). Facebook has over 1 billion people that gave out their personal information in order to use it and with this advantage, this company can sell information of what people are interested in to other companies in order to make money and so that the companies that buy information can know what interests they can sell.
Corporations and social media track our interests and our information through the internet using cookie crumbs. Cookie crumbs is a way to save information about yourself whenever you need to fill out any forums or whenever you need to give out your information like when you make a purchase or whenever you browse through your favorite websites making it easier for you not to do it all over again. According to Naomi Troni, In Social Media Privacy: A Contradiction In Terms?,"Whereas retailers and others used to tweeze out information gleaned through loyalty cards, prize drawings, and catalog mailing lists, now these old standbys have been massively augmented by costumers researching and purchasing online, leaving in their wake a digital trail of cookie crumbs detailing their needs, tastes, and desires." This way, the internet saves and follows your information so it can help you by saving you some time on having to put your information every time and helps companies save up on making surveys.
Our private information is not just given out by us, it is also given out by companies by selling it to other companies but don't just look out for them giving out your personal information, hackers can easily obtain our information illegally. Even though our information is at risk with someone that may use it incorrectly, we also need to be on the look out for family members and friends disclosing our personal information. According to Naomi Troni, In Social Media Privacy: A Contradiction In Terms?,"not just snooping companies and hackers that consumers fear: Nearly half the sample (47%)-and a majority of millennial-worry that friends or family will share inappropriate personal information about them online. Around one-third overall already regret posting personal information about themselves" (2). These risks must be taken in consideration if you don't want your personal information to be open to who ever wants it.
With the information that Naomi Troni gives out to us, in the article Social Media Privacy: A Contradiction In Terms? It helps us realize how our privacy is not so private after all is we submit it through out the web. By not having the proper information on how to protect your information online, this article is a step that you can use in order to have more knowledge about your privacy on how it is used online and how you might avoid giving it out to snooping companies and protecting it. With the information provided to us about the web we can be aware of what we do in the web instead of being confident that it is safe to just give out our personal information or giving out personal information about others.
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