ARE YOU PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY?

Hello everyone, welcome to another addition of my marketing blog. Today I’m going to talk about how comfortable people feel with their privacy online.

Your oblivious online adoptions could potentially have you risk all your privacy.

You’re probably wondering what do I mean by this?

Australian legislation does not include the word ‘privacy’ as is so vague. The term ‘privacy’ is so difficult to describe as it can include a multitude of dissimilar things and limitations, making it problematic for you and me to engross how we feel about our privacy online.

Let’s instigate some key points on what privacy covers and what it is.

·        Divulging facts that perhaps unknown to the public

·        Clandestineness, discretion and informational self determination

·        Privacy can symbolize personal data

Now looking back at brief introduction on privacy, do you take certain measures to make sure your privacy is protection online?

 

I bet you have Facebook, everyone has Facebook. Were you aware of the security breach that affected over 87 million users? Cambridge Analytica who might I add worked with Donald Trump’s election team, harvested millions of user’s personal information and profiles to build a software program to assist Trump. What a massive breach of privacy!

You can see why it is so important to be vigilant with what you post online and who you give access to your private data. Do you know that there are thousands of third-party companies on Facebook that ask you to complete survey’s such as; find out what you’ll look like in 50 years, find out what you’ll look like being the opposite sex, etc. When completing these survey’s they often won’t allow you to complete them unless you have authorised them to have access to your PERSONAL DATA. If I were you, I would stop using these services. 

 

Have you knowingly given a company access to your private data, and has it affected you later?

I would love to hear your stories, leave me a comment! – Y.M