Monday, November 7, 2011

Blog Post #11 Schermerhorn

Online Privacy is not existent. Although people believe they are safe online there are still ways to obtain any information wanted to obtain. For instance, if I did my banking online a hacker could easily, at least for them, hack all of my information and probably even wipe out my bank account. The term online privacy is simply there to make people not be afraid of putting information on the internet. This I hard to fathom, that everything that is put online is shared with the world but it’s true. Facebook claims to keep the information private that is requested, yet they continually get penalized for this deceiving term. I personally don’t put anything on the internet I would want the world to know or see. I believe companies and consumers should come to an alliance on what privacy really should be, and what both sides want out of it. I personally believe that everything you want to be private should not be shared with anyone that you do not consent to. With Googling my name all that came up was my Facebook but its private so all you can see in my picture and name. I believe this is because I haven’t had anything published, I don’t have any of my own accounts; it’s all under my parent’s name. I was expecting more to come up when I googled my dad’s name, there was literally nothing on him and he is a pilot and owns a store. Although my searches were invalid I do believe that privacy is an issue online which is causing distrust in the internet.

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