Data Privacy Issues

1. The 5 biggest online privacy issues: 

• Cookies:

                    -My opinion on what they have to say about cookies, well, let me sum it up in one word: Bull. Cookies are far from invisible, especially nowadays. Everyone I know knows what cookies are, and all you have to do get rid of them is just go to your history and delete them. If you were to go back in time, say ten years, then no one would have any idea what cookies are, and granted, you would get very few cookies every time you open a website, they will add up very quickly without you knowing, but nowadays there is awareness and there is management of cookies. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I agree with cookies in any way shape or form, though with some people, they wouldn't mind. Some people don't care whether or not their internet life is tracked, but one perk that no one can disagree with is the internet showing them what they would like based on their history. Computers are getting smarter and smarter, and people just can't live with this.

• Seizing Cloud History:

                     -I don't really understand this, What I got from it is, the government is trying to access your cloud, but the government is also trying to make laws against accessing your cloud...

• Location data betrayal:

                     -To be honest, I don't really care about this. Whenever something asks whether or not I want  it to know my location, I always say no, but sometimes it doesn't ask you. But really, unless someone is trying to plan a murder on me, it still won't affect me too horribly much. But I can see why this could be a problem for some people. Am I saying nothing should be done about it: no. But I am also saying that I won't particularly care if something isn't done right away.

• Data never forgets a face:

                     -Really, I don't see the problem with this. Yeah, so what, someone posted a picture of me eating noodles, and now the NSA knows that I like pasta. So what, big whoop, every time I go outside wearing jeans and a T-shirt, it proves to everyone that I'm an average Joe. Then there is the argument, but what if they use that information to invade your privacy, Well, if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear, I mean, it's not like they are distributing images of you partying with your friends to your parents, but if they are getting images that could help solve a crime case, then good, use that information all you like. As long as ya got a warrant (... she's my cherry pie... I'm sorry, I had to)

• Scanning in the name of cyber-security 

                     - Okay, really, this is basically saying that the internet shouldn't give the government proof of you committing crime. Even so, it is legal evidence, and according to the 4th ammendment, the law is still allowed to use it as evidence so long as hey have A. the owner's consent, or B. a warrant... Now they're just grasping for straws

2. AOL User Face Exposed:

     You know, the real story here isn't that an old lady got her internet history tracked, it's that an old lady uses the internet. So what, the internet now knows who she is, what is the point of writing a multi-paragraph article about it. It isn't like anyone is going to care that an old lady likes her three dogs, or cares about her friends. The only way I can see this being a bad thing is if you are intentionally trying to hide something, say, your internet history, but then google gives your cloud to yahoo. So what, it isn't like yahoo is just going to hand out fliers listing off everything you've used the internet for over the last 4 months to every one you know, and now your parents know that you committed a guilty pleasure in February. And if it truly bothers you that much, just use an incognito window, or here's an idea: DELETE YOUR HISTORY! It's not that hard, you go to your history, and click delete, boom, done, now alone time stays alone, and come absolute worst case and someone DOES abuse information they obtained illegally, you could just plead the 4th amendment and there's a law suit, so long as you could prove that it's your internet history and that they obtained it illegally

3. instagram privacy

ok, first I would like to say, the only social media accounts I have are facebook and google, and I almost never use google as social media, and facebook is all I really need. And even if I did, the idea of what this person is saying is preposterous. He is proposing that if you share an image on 1 social media, and share into other social media through that social media, it will not stay private, even if in the original social media you have the privacy settings. I don't think he realizes how amazingly ridiculous what he just said is. Of course I share a video/picture in facebook with privacy settings on, then share it onto twitter (if i even had one) it is not going to remain private to that social media. He then proceeds to list a whole plethora of ways to avoid this, when the simplest solution is one he has already mentioned: turn the privacy settings on. Except, I mean turn privacy settings on with both social media. 

4. Twitter tracking

As I stated earlier, I don't have a twitter, but if i did, I wouldn't see this as a problem. Big whoop. twitter takes my search history and shows me what I think I would like. I don't see the problem here. Unless I were to supposedly be recklessly going into porn websites without incognito mode on... I mean, uhhh, going into those websites in general, yeah... and new twitter is showing me playboy. However as I jokingly mentioned, there are easy ways around this, go incognito, for computers you can do it manually (click your network name at the top right corner of the screen, just before the minimize button, and click o incognito) or use the shortcut (ctrl + n), however on a phone you can only use it manually, click the drop down list inside the search bar (3 dots) and click open a new incognito tab). Or, simply enough, you could delete your search history. In the long run, the problem here, runs directly back to #2, people are to stupid to not know how to read terms and conditions or to merely know how a website works, and get all nit-picky when they figure it does something they do not agree with, even when there is an extremely simple solution that they do not see because they are in blind and pointless rage.