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Look at the privacy policy of a commercial website such as Google, Facebook or Amazon – how would you characterize their approach to privacy?   Do you think people are willingly sacrificing their privacy for the promise of security and safety on the Internet and in the real world?  Perhaps of greater concern, are they willingly sacrificing their privacy for the sake of convenience? with two cites

2- write 3 replies to student’s on their discussion posts 

This is the first student’s discussion you have to reply in 100 words:

Online privacy policy are the guidelines and terms that are set by commercial and social websites to ensure the internet privacy of its users. These privacy terms, trickle down to user data, personal information and other details that they share with commercial websites (Sevignani, 2013). In most of the websites we interact and use frequently, you will find out that upon registration you’re are provided with privacy terms and condition to read and check before completing your registration.

Website applications such as Facebook, tend to offer new users with their privacy terms and conditions before completion of registration. These terms explain on what they will offer publicly on the internet about you. Mostly, people tend to assume and skip reading these terms not knowing that they are risking a lot to the internet and the world. These terms exist until you either choose to opt out or delete your account from this service. One not actually reading, you won’t really know that they are fetching or collecting from you.

Cyber security researches have proven that some people have experienced a data breach or hacked because they assumed the terms. Some of this platforms collect a lot of your data and sell them to malicious people since you accepted it as stated in the terms and condition one never read. Others will tend to make you trust them but at the back you are their target (Densham, 2015). Even though most people don’t really know the quantity and the risk.

Online privacy is one of the areas that people should be careful about since lack of it exposes one in many ways; for example your location, contact number, full names, year of birth amongst other personal information. If users don’t take caution on their online privacy, they give power to people with malicious intentions to take them down digitally.

References

Densham, B. (2015). Three cyber-security strategies to mitigate the impact of a data breach. Network Security, 2015(1), 5-8.

Sevignani, S. (2013). The commodification of privacy on the Internet. Science and Public Policy, 40(6), 733-739.

This is the second student’s discussion you have to reply in 100 words:

The privacy policy is a crucial aspect that is required, mainly when we use digital media. An individual’s privacy is at significant risk; that is why we need privacy policies to help secure the users’ personal information. Facebook is one of the most widely used digital applications. People connect with each other for free. Facebook has a privacy policy that helps keep information related to people private until they allow it to be shared. When individuals create a Facebook account, it demands them to fill in some of the information. This information includes their name, age, location, phone number, etc. this is carried out to approach the client in any urgent case or to make them aware of their account activity. Before signing up, Facebook promises that the information will be kept safe, but many applications can get access to this information when it is connected to Facebook. It keeps sharing personal information in different ways without the knowledge of the user (Seng, 2021). Moreover, it is also evident that people are willingly sacrificing their privacy for signing up in third-party applications. For example, when they connect any game to Facebook, it automatically provides the game with the users’ personal information (Isaak, 2018). Generally, the digital world has become a threat to the privacy of individuals. They may not have any negative concern about it, but the applications connected with it might use such information for the wrong purpose ending up indulging the users in problems because of sharing their personal information

References

Isaak, J. (2018). User data privacy: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and privacy protection. 51(8).

Seng, S. (2021). A look into user privacy and third-party applications in Facebook. 29(2).

This is the third student’s discussion you have to reply in 100 words:

I just looked at the Google privacy page. It was not easily accessible, marked all the way down the footer of the page. When you get to the privacy page, there is so much information, and videos that as a busy graduate student, I did not have time to read/watch it all. So as Dr. Martin said in the last slide of the week’s slides, I chose privacy as a preference. We are used to acting indifferent to it, to keep our busy lives rolling, not worrying about privacy, but only about the convenience that Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook give us when signing up for a new product/website using our credentials from these platforms. We choose privacy as a preference every day, even here on Blackboard, has any of us read their privacy policy? I did not.

We feel safe because we trust that companies will protect our data and not sell it anywhere, or that we will not see our passwords or full information anywhere else, we trust. As if that was our only concern.

We choose privacy for convenience every day when downloading a new app, not paying attention if it tracks us when not logged in. We forget that everything has a price, even for browsing a “free” website, we pay with our data, with our attention, and our time, and we receive convenience.