Data VS Privacy
Companies make you love them to take your data!
Data gathering practices by corporations is when businesses use personal information such as addresses. Mobile phone numbers, full names and other media on devices from customers through various practices, it could be done by registering for an account on social media platforms, it could be through sharing photos and videos too. In addition to that consumers wont be cautious that this information could be sold to other corporations fro several issues.
Nowadays, data is all over the place! In every firm, sector and economy. The use of such data can be given and analyzed to distinguish patterns and create better decisions. Data is allowing competition to take place and growth as well. However, some businesses do take this seriously while some don’t.
A report of IT and business experts has shown that 93% of respondents crosswise over organisation size are tested by information security. Usually Organisations which are larger put great effort in protecting the privacy of sensitive data, but they also have to face great risks, such as that there could be customer records which get stolen.
Since it is really hard to live without social media nowadays. Social media platforms have chosen to register consumers only if they provided their personal information to such services so that they benefit from the data given. Not only that, once consumers are registered this kind of platforms could gain even more information without the consumer noticing, for example while using Snapchat location services should be turned on so that users could access filters, this way Snapchat could easily find out where each of its users are. Google could also save search histories of what each user had searched for.
As a result, users are giving their personal information for the sake of benefiting from the services offered and not being cautious of the harms or privacy issues they could face, some consumers give out their personal information without even noticing that they could be saved or kept for later usage.
A has tag has been trending in twitter “#DataPrivacy” which allows users to discuss their thoughts on Data Privacy:
The selling of data is really annoying, and it is an unethical practice because it could lead users to several dangerous risks. Everyone is seeking for privacy whether they are at home, in public or away. They always would like their personal information to be safe and not shared with anyone.