In the age of technology privacy is a myth. Have you ever heard this? If not, understanding this is reality is important. What do u think people were desperately trying to attain in the past and of course in the present? Money? fame? Respect? And why not all of these? Yes, Its Political powers. But do you know that even these highly strong political officials are nothing Infront of something that took a huge form in the recent years. And now the powers are with them who owns technology. Why? How? These are the keywords that we neglected before, but now, to know this is a need of the hour.
So far so good, there is nothing dangerous until now. The real concern starts now, these things did not start now, these started decades back. Now these computers know more about us than we ourselves know and it is locked up in their servers, and their masters has the key. Imagine what If they wish to misuse or if someone evil gets hold of that key. Within days the netizen population would dance to his tunes. This is a kind of fear that we must acknowledge. Knowledge about adverse possibilities is what inculcates that fear. And we have solutions for that and that’s what is important to understand. We have the power to control how much knowledge should the internet know about us and how much should the internet use that knowledge to enhance our online experience. And we named it internet privacy.
Now its time to go technical and know deeper about this. Internet privacy refers to the vast range of technologies, laws and ideas related to giving users or other third parties more privacy protections in their use of the Internet.
Internet privacy takes many forms, now its mandatory to include privacy statements on websites, taking permissions for data sharing and transparency in data usage. Internet privacy and anonymity are now a right of users, especially as e-commerce continues to gain traction. Privacy violations and threat risks are standard consideration for any website.
Internet privacy is also known as online privacy.
One of the important things that people raise when they discuss Internet privacy is the regulation of handling user data.
A most commonly cited example is the General Data Protection Rule or GDPR, which is a European standard recently adopted to protect the data of European netizens. Ostensibly, the act governs data belonging to EU citizens, but not desirable for the companies that deals with the data of the European users. A multinational company utilizing the global Internet may have any number of European users as members, subscribers or customers. Since the introduction of this rules the company having the data set are required to follow the prescribed protocol, if not are answerable to EU government.
Many countries and states around the world have come up with their own data privacy laws. Many started with the main intention to close the doors that were already open due to lack of regulation by the world wide web itself. Unfortunately, internet bloomed late in India so does our awareness about cybersecurity. Being one of the countries with large internet market of more than 500 million netizens our country ranks low in internet security. Hopefully learning from the best, we could also develop something like that but its highly dependent on you who reads this.
The way we see and use internet is changing rapidly these days as the issues of internet privacy came to light.
Already, major technology companies have put in place stricter rules and protocols to increase user privacy to all of their users. At the same time, many privacy advocates are demanding for more transparency in how third-party data is used. Also, some experts have suggested that the users should have full control over their data and the third parties should pay to buy the data from the users so the transparency of the process is clearly monitored. The use of blockchain has been explored as a means of building this new type of privacy protocols. In general, having data sets on a blockchain allows companies for a more diverse capabilities related to manipulating and evaluating that data or keeping track of who has access or where the data is stored.
The conversation around Internet privacy continues to evolve. The rising talented engineers and analysts are working on new ideas and strategies for handling online privacy as internet grows and cloud systems port even more sophisticated data sets through global Internet trajectories.
But this is not a concern that can be contained just with implementing strict laws and order. You should understand the importance about this and accordingly use it. Surely there are ways we could restrict the use of internet and information that we ourselves share.
The above diagram shows some of the methods that we could follow. We usually don’t take precautions hoping good for everything, but having a positive attitude involves having awareness about the field we are stepping into. Make sure to follow that. Its always wise to understand about things that we are fully dependant in our lives. Like I mentioned earlier, in the age of technology internet privacy is a myth but never just a myth.
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