The Brexit was a huge phenomenon, it attracted everyone's attention. The major reason for which the UK people voted exit was that they do not want any more people from other countries on their own. The news still devotes the first pages to this event. One of the articles was particularly attractive to me. "Chinese tourist influx prompts police call as some baffled residents fear for their privacy" released by Oxford mail. Kidlington residents qualified a group of tourists as invaders. They didn't like them snooping around their properties, walk in their gardens and take pictures of their belongings. What was even more captivating is that this influx pushed some residents to call the police and record complaints. Privacy, it was and it will be forever dear to us, to each of us.
These people were concerned about their physical privacy, they did not want people to touch their belongings, they did not accept people taking pictures of their houses and moving in their gardens. They were so concerned about their privacy.
Today we are witnessing a new tendency. Most of the people expose their personal information, daily activities, pictures of their friends, families, and babies online leaving certain virtual doors open to invaders. People are proud of their achievements, Happy of acquiring a new item, enjoy the company of a friend or a loved one and they do not stop sharing every single detail online, not only with close members but even with strangers. Is it that easy to trust the online world? Technological progress is constantly occurring, new methods of both privacy breach and protection may evolve, the reason for which advances in technology and concerns are always rising side by side. Is it possible that this traditional matter can be extended to the virtual level? It is not surprising that the evolution of the internet has been followed by an increasing concern on its impact on individual privacy.
Is it an era in which the revelation of personal data online might represent a risk?
Back in the 1980s, we started already hearing consumers complaining about the erosion of their private information. For instance, In 1992 the San Diego County population data was advertised for sale costing no more than $99 following the registration for the vote. The American consumer expressed how threatened they felt towards the violation of their privacy.
In 2009 T- mobile shocked its customers in the UK when these later knew that their private data were sold to a third party. This time, the data value was bigger and the price was significantly high.
Just when I thought that most of the data selling scandals were part of the past that I found an article dating of 5July,2016 published in North Jersey news website telling about another company "The Colorado sporting" which managed to sell everything following a bankruptcy even its customer's private data.
In many countries, the owner holds the right to sell the data as long as it is made clear in their privacy policies. In other countries, the consumer does not even know what is made of his personal data. therefore, It is really important to spend a bit of time reading the terms and conditions in order to know where the information we give is going. This should become a worldwide concern.
Surprisingly, when it comes to online presence, the apps, webpages, blogs ... and so forth, the majority of the end-users hand out freely their own information and do not disagree with being tracked. for instance, when a user clicks a bouton or the touch screen to find a shop opening hours or a nearby restaurant and which direction is the quickest to find it, the network or the content provider gives a number of propositions straight away taking into consideration the actual location. the PCs and the Smartphones collect each tiny information about each of us. This can be called "the privacy paradox", people are contradicting themselves, while they are reporting their concerns, their actual behaviors is just the opposite, they freely handout their own information and accepts the proposed rules without even well checking them. Although increased concern has been demonstrated, the consumer or the user still knows very little to whom he or she gives up the personal data, to which company it will belong afterward and how these details will be used.
Several explanations might be proposed here, either the companies are lucking of visibility and taking advantage of the consumer optimistic bias, whereby the terms and conditions multiple pages are considered of minimal importance, the user in here consider himself strong and does not need the need any online protection. Second, People might be really concerned of their privacy but are not armed with the necessary skills to protect themselves, finally, people may be concerned by their own privacy just on a societal degree, but in reality, they are not interested in personal data protection.
Unfortunately, The privacy is a vague notion, the language used to write the policies is also vague which leave the consumer in a very vulnerable situation and regardless the level of concern each individual hold over his data privacy, the business actors should inform them fully and with clear and simple language in which way their data is and will be used. The user needs to be given the necessary explanation in order to make informed decisions. The question is what do the business actors choose to turn the privacy policies blurry or neglect this part of their jobs.
Privacy is one of the precious things in life that we cannot give away with such ease or even against an amount of money. Todays' world is made of what has been collected years ago. the world of tomorrow will be definitely made in the same way, we do not know very well the consequences of what is happening now and the next generation might find our today actions unacceptable.
Follow @IElmhadderThese people were concerned about their physical privacy, they did not want people to touch their belongings, they did not accept people taking pictures of their houses and moving in their gardens. They were so concerned about their privacy.
Today we are witnessing a new tendency. Most of the people expose their personal information, daily activities, pictures of their friends, families, and babies online leaving certain virtual doors open to invaders. People are proud of their achievements, Happy of acquiring a new item, enjoy the company of a friend or a loved one and they do not stop sharing every single detail online, not only with close members but even with strangers. Is it that easy to trust the online world? Technological progress is constantly occurring, new methods of both privacy breach and protection may evolve, the reason for which advances in technology and concerns are always rising side by side. Is it possible that this traditional matter can be extended to the virtual level? It is not surprising that the evolution of the internet has been followed by an increasing concern on its impact on individual privacy.
Is it an era in which the revelation of personal data online might represent a risk?
Back in the 1980s, we started already hearing consumers complaining about the erosion of their private information. For instance, In 1992 the San Diego County population data was advertised for sale costing no more than $99 following the registration for the vote. The American consumer expressed how threatened they felt towards the violation of their privacy.
In 2009 T- mobile shocked its customers in the UK when these later knew that their private data were sold to a third party. This time, the data value was bigger and the price was significantly high.
Just when I thought that most of the data selling scandals were part of the past that I found an article dating of 5July,2016 published in North Jersey news website telling about another company "The Colorado sporting" which managed to sell everything following a bankruptcy even its customer's private data.
In many countries, the owner holds the right to sell the data as long as it is made clear in their privacy policies. In other countries, the consumer does not even know what is made of his personal data. therefore, It is really important to spend a bit of time reading the terms and conditions in order to know where the information we give is going. This should become a worldwide concern.
Surprisingly, when it comes to online presence, the apps, webpages, blogs ... and so forth, the majority of the end-users hand out freely their own information and do not disagree with being tracked. for instance, when a user clicks a bouton or the touch screen to find a shop opening hours or a nearby restaurant and which direction is the quickest to find it, the network or the content provider gives a number of propositions straight away taking into consideration the actual location. the PCs and the Smartphones collect each tiny information about each of us. This can be called "the privacy paradox", people are contradicting themselves, while they are reporting their concerns, their actual behaviors is just the opposite, they freely handout their own information and accepts the proposed rules without even well checking them. Although increased concern has been demonstrated, the consumer or the user still knows very little to whom he or she gives up the personal data, to which company it will belong afterward and how these details will be used.
Several explanations might be proposed here, either the companies are lucking of visibility and taking advantage of the consumer optimistic bias, whereby the terms and conditions multiple pages are considered of minimal importance, the user in here consider himself strong and does not need the need any online protection. Second, People might be really concerned of their privacy but are not armed with the necessary skills to protect themselves, finally, people may be concerned by their own privacy just on a societal degree, but in reality, they are not interested in personal data protection.
Unfortunately, The privacy is a vague notion, the language used to write the policies is also vague which leave the consumer in a very vulnerable situation and regardless the level of concern each individual hold over his data privacy, the business actors should inform them fully and with clear and simple language in which way their data is and will be used. The user needs to be given the necessary explanation in order to make informed decisions. The question is what do the business actors choose to turn the privacy policies blurry or neglect this part of their jobs.
Privacy is one of the precious things in life that we cannot give away with such ease or even against an amount of money. Todays' world is made of what has been collected years ago. the world of tomorrow will be definitely made in the same way, we do not know very well the consequences of what is happening now and the next generation might find our today actions unacceptable.
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