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by Sean, September 30
People are being increasingly concerned about thier privacy at risk on the Internet these days.
Reading Danah Boyd's "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck" brought up some thoughts to my mind,
as we give out our personal information with no concerns at all sometimes on the web.
When surfing on the web, we encounter numerous numbers of advertising pages such as the promotional events page with free gifts and such, at least few times when we're on the Internet.
When some of these promotions are mostly not very attractive towards most people and they
will usually ignore it, but sometimes if the advert looks reliable (for example, if its from a reliable company that people can trust) people will show some interest towards it. Most of these promotional adverts will require the users to fill in a personal information data, including your name, home address, phone number, email address, occupation and even an alternative contact's details in case the gift does not reach you or something - its pretty much all the major personal information that you're required to give out to someone who you don't even know and will probably never meet in your life. He/she, whos responsible for collecting people's data, eventually will end up with tens of thousands of different people's personal information.
We don't have any idea what the companies promoting these events are going to do with the collected information of the participants. However, interesting thing is, even though people are concerned about privacy on the Internet, they still tend to expose thier privacy in these situations, when he/she decides that the receipient is reliable and trustworthy. But you never really know how they're going to be used.
by Sean, September 30
People are being increasingly concerned about thier privacy at risk on the Internet these days.
Reading Danah Boyd's "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck" brought up some thoughts to my mind,
as we give out our personal information with no concerns at all sometimes on the web.
When surfing on the web, we encounter numerous numbers of advertising pages such as the promotional events page with free gifts and such, at least few times when we're on the Internet.
When some of these promotions are mostly not very attractive towards most people and they
will usually ignore it, but sometimes if the advert looks reliable (for example, if its from a reliable company that people can trust) people will show some interest towards it. Most of these promotional adverts will require the users to fill in a personal information data, including your name, home address, phone number, email address, occupation and even an alternative contact's details in case the gift does not reach you or something - its pretty much all the major personal information that you're required to give out to someone who you don't even know and will probably never meet in your life. He/she, whos responsible for collecting people's data, eventually will end up with tens of thousands of different people's personal information.
We don't have any idea what the companies promoting these events are going to do with the collected information of the participants. However, interesting thing is, even though people are concerned about privacy on the Internet, they still tend to expose thier privacy in these situations, when he/she decides that the receipient is reliable and trustworthy. But you never really know how they're going to be used.