Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Privacy & Confidentiality

Technology has made our lives easier in the way we can find, post, and contact friends. This has also made it easier for other people to follow our every moves whether for good or bad intentions. By doing this we have already given up a bit of our privacy. This can include simple things such as finding out what network we are from, school of attendance, birthday etc. Sure we have privacy settings but in some cases it becomes a task to choose what we want shown or hidden. Facebook provides a very long list of options making it more of a chore and you're bound to miss one or two options. For users that constantly twitter about what they are doing makes stalking so much easier and no I'm not talking from experience. This can also be done on the Iphone Facebook App in which you can use the phones GPS to publish a post of your current location. Lets not forget the companies that may scour the internet finding dirt on potential companies. One to many pictures of you being a rowdy party goer could mean the difference between getting an offer or not. All we can do is just to remember to be as careful as we can be to protect our private information. No one wants to have their credit card information stolen or be stalked !

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