You remember the story of the site JenniCam; 1996, Jennifer Ringley has decided to record her life in photos every three minutes and upload it to the Internet. Her life changed. Her website became one of the most popular 10 sites on the internet.
Her story taxiδεψε από τα μέσα ενημέρωσης και πέρασε από το Letterman, τη Wall Street Journal, το This American Life, βγάζοντας ουσιαστικά την ιδιωτική της ζωή στη φόρα, και φυσικά εκτός ελέγχου.
Jennifer Ringley has left 2003 online and has not been back since, as ZDNet reports.
In this day and age we all wish we had our privacy, but then we upload to Facebook, broadcast our lives in real time with Periscope and Meerkat, and are shocked to discover that our messages on Snapchat they do not always disappear when we have seen them.
Leaving aside whether the National Security Service (NSA) can break any open SSL application whenever it wants, security loopholes like FREAK, and the fact that governments can collect what they want, and let's get the most common event that at any time upload unencrypted information to public websites that everyone can see, often forgetting that any internet activity is likely to be tracked.
In too many social networks, such as Facebook and Google+, much of the corporate business plan is based on identifying your interests so that they can target their ads more effectively.
Think about it, and just look at the ads on your pages. Do they reflect your searches, what you have written, or that you liked? Of course they do.
It's also not just that they watch when you're on the company's website. A few days ago we mentioned that the social network continues to monitor your online behaviors, even when you sign out of your account. Linking your profile to attach additional information can be done with a simple cookie.
Δεν είναι όμως μόνο το Facebook. Η Google έχει ταυτότητα διαφημίσεων που παρακολουθεί τους χρήστες του Android, και η Apple χρησιμοποιεί τη address ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου σας και το IDFA (Identifier για τους advertisers) to track you. With the rise of Big Data applications like Facebook Atlas, it has become easier than ever for companies to track your every move on the Internet.
Our personal information is used for trade and is marketable. The internet gives us quickly what we want, and in return the advertising companies are following every step.
You can lock your Facebook account, set your iPhone and Android to better protect your privacy, and use only Security-Socket Layer (SSL) protected websites. Nothing seems to help. This should be remembered every time you take personal or corporate data into Internet.
