Privacy & Confidentiality

In this day and age many people have to always keep in the back of their minds the possibly of a privacy breach. With many young people on social media nowadays sometimes they don’t always filter what they share or they just don’t take proper precaution when it comes to their passwords. This can cause their personal accounts to be easily hacked or for people to access to personal information like pictures.

With companies like Facebook and Google taking information about you sometimes without your knowledge, or security breaches like the iCloud hack that happened 2 years ago, a lot people may be afraid to put their trust in new technology. While many are taking precautions there still leaves others who don’t. Maybe this carelessness is result of not facing a privacy breach of their own. Regardless, I think it is important to educate yourself about privacy and confidentiality online and with the use of new technologies like cloud storage. Find out how website like Facebook and google are using you information. Try  Googling yourself to see what information about you is available for others to find. Have a variety of passwords for your various accounts (be sure to keep track of them all), back up personal pictures to external hard drives, and the list goes on. There are a variety of ways you can attempt to maintain your privacy in this digital and new media age, it is just up to you to make the effort

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