Technology is advancing as time goes by, no doubt about it. Our smartphones are getting smarter, laptops are getting faster, and data storage is becoming more compact than ever. Society has also been benefiting from this technology as well, from medica...
Throughout one’s daily life, one may send personal and private information through apps such as Facebook, iMessage, or even through email. While all these platforms provide instant messaging, there is a chance that it can be intercepted and someo...
The digital world is a big place. “Big” would actually be an understatement. The digital world is infinitely big and is always expanding. It is safe to say that one can get lost in the World Wide Web and come across multitudes of data ind i...
The video I watched, “Serious Profiling: Have you been profiled yet?” focused on the various ways online identities are made based off our online usage, in other words, the information we put about ourselves online. Such information can range from our relationship status, the school we attend, people we are associated with, the pictures we
The words “Terms and Conditions” affect almost every person’s life. After clicking accept to this we assume that the website will give us services. Also, after seeing a word that has “anony” we assume our data will be kept anonymous. After watching a video Data Anonymization, I learned that even with our information not pertaining particularly…
When we think of data ownership we usually think of ourselves being in control of everything, since, it is of course our data. However, the truth is we may not have as much control as we think. This is simply because we easily give away our rights without even looking into what we just agreed
