Tag Archives: Online_privacy

The readings were enlightening ones. No doubt that they were long and thorough. Let’s start with facebook first; I can say that the advertisers use our personal information. In fact, if your status says that you are single, you will get advertisements on “meet singles in your area”. I figured out that they use your personal information and they use your location through the location services. We all know that this is all around us but some of us pay attention to it and most of us don’t pay attention. I paid attention to it after reading the articles on facebook and privacy. I used internet to pay bills and to buy products online but one time I got a bill for a product that I never ordered. Somebody used my credit card information and purchased. How would you feel if this happens to you…? I cancelled all my online transactions including online banking services. I also had to go through process of changing my account number to inhibit further problems. The way technology is changing by leaps and bounds, the problems regarding online privacy are also increasing in severity. The laws are changing, the privacy statements are changing, but people hardly find time to go through all that pages of reading. To save time, they agree to terms and conditions, without even realizing that they just gave consent to be used by service providers.