Online Privacy and Facebook Privacy

With the ever increasing use of the internet and storing information online comes a directly correlated loss of privacy. In today’s day and age when everyone’s shopping history, credit card info, social security numbers, usernames, and passwords are stored online they are easy targets for types of cyber terrorist known as a hackers. Social networking sites are actually the worst source of online privacy for individuals because social networking sites such as Facebook store a collective medium of information all in 1 place and leave your information vulnerable to attack. Also on Facebook any little post that is put up either by you or of your friends that contains you in it is no longer private and any potential employer can view that post and has the right to take your job away or refuse you a position. Employers aside, a piece of cyber data or DNA gets stored on the servers of sites where post things you want to order on Facebook or you order things from  online and online advertisers illegally use that information to market you more things that they think you might be interested in as well as sell your private personal information to other marketing/advertising agencies. A few steps you can do to protect yourselves are delete cookies in your web browser clear cache when you are finished using a browser, make posts private on Facebook, hide tags on Facebook, hide preferences on Facebook, make pictures inaccessible on sites accept to your close friends, don’t save credit card information on sites, instead type them in manually every time you want to order something. With the increase of the internet personal rights are going to be infringed upon it’s your job to know how to prevent it from happening to you.