Who is watching YOU?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 by M.K
After reading "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck" by Danah Boyd it got me thinking about other media forms which not many people may think has an affect on their privacy.
While issues are being raised over privacy on the Internet, we don't realise that there are other ways our privacy may be at risk.
We all at some point in our lives use a cell phone and most of us have become so attached to our cell phone that we won't even leave the house without it. And with the development of cell phones today, a lot of people tend to live their day to day lives through the use of their cell phone being able to access all the information they need, where ever and when ever.
So how does this relate to our privacy? Well many of us use our cell phone as a form of communication. In most cases we send and receive messages containing a range of personal information. So where does all this information travel to before it is sent to the other person on the receiving end? Of that I'm not particularly sure, but one thing I'm sure about is that with every message sent and received, it is possible for your phone network provider to access the information through their system.
A few of my friends who work or have worked for Vodafone have also been able to access information like a persons full name, and address, through the Vodafone system simply by typing in their cell phone number and searching for it. On that note, I think it's safe to say that people would feel uncomfortable knowing that their information could be accessed so easily. But is it really a breach of privacy when we supplied Vodafone with that information from when we first signed up to the account and the people accessing the information are Vodafone employees?
I guess when it comes to privacy it may be that in order to gain something, in this case to have a cell phone which operates, we have no choice but to give up some of our rights.
On that note, here is a video which may or may not have an affect on you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg
While issues are being raised over privacy on the Internet, we don't realise that there are other ways our privacy may be at risk.
We all at some point in our lives use a cell phone and most of us have become so attached to our cell phone that we won't even leave the house without it. And with the development of cell phones today, a lot of people tend to live their day to day lives through the use of their cell phone being able to access all the information they need, where ever and when ever.
So how does this relate to our privacy? Well many of us use our cell phone as a form of communication. In most cases we send and receive messages containing a range of personal information. So where does all this information travel to before it is sent to the other person on the receiving end? Of that I'm not particularly sure, but one thing I'm sure about is that with every message sent and received, it is possible for your phone network provider to access the information through their system.
A few of my friends who work or have worked for Vodafone have also been able to access information like a persons full name, and address, through the Vodafone system simply by typing in their cell phone number and searching for it. On that note, I think it's safe to say that people would feel uncomfortable knowing that their information could be accessed so easily. But is it really a breach of privacy when we supplied Vodafone with that information from when we first signed up to the account and the people accessing the information are Vodafone employees?
I guess when it comes to privacy it may be that in order to gain something, in this case to have a cell phone which operates, we have no choice but to give up some of our rights.
On that note, here is a video which may or may not have an affect on you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg