It took a journey to realize the privacy part on any of present Social Site; such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Linkedin etc… if we go to realities in computing technologies or as normal individuals in today computing…It is time to know how new tools’ manipulation can have access on personal data without awareness of the User …
How such permissions can be effective to everyone ? and how the future can harm us? For this reason, we start drafting the habit of Online user in a very close journey that let everyone to know the danger before it become late, from personal data to personal information that cannot be taken back..
Let us start with Media recognition tools – Today invention, it is possible to snap and find personal shared, public data for any snapped individual wherever it is in the web:
The web we know today is a long journey result from effort that aimed to scientist data and research exchange between them (Kim lee, Pioneer of the Web 1991). with growing need of been part of our daily life; Business to personal, the web today is expending itself from web0 to web3 the web evolution that not only automated data, but to intelligence on a smart data storage that any agent (software) can manipulate and take decision based on several rule and object (logical) human thinking that will relieve human been for only decision maker whether in Business of daily lifestyle…
Unfortunately not everyone know the standard and limitation of these inventions, not even all companies that follow measure to secure their data and user information. for these reason the today growing of Social network sites like Facebook, users are in danger for the lot of fun and services that give them no time for analyzing what they are giving to these sites. Sorry people took advantages for the user ignorance and careless for somehow, they crack, hack and monitor all traffic on these public sites.
More also latest technology tools allow us to have any public details base on face recognition technology that if i snap or scan any picture, i can truly have all the public details for the image owner.. Think the example a hacker doesn’t know any information but know the person shopping in mall, and surely believe he/she has money: the hacker snap and find out that all transaction are going to specific bank. the chance will be the security system and measures of the bank, because if for some weakness cases the hacker access on the bank data, this will be a disaster.
Lot of cases are relevant, but the amazing thing is these technologies can be used for facilitating our daily needs, in example; instead of signing or finger printing your boarding pass, you just get recognize by a camera and move to the next door, because data is stored and query by agent program without human involvement.. we just need to decide which data to share as Public and which sensible information to provide where is highly needed, because it may be late, the day you will say i didn’t know……..Salim
There is no reason to accuse owners of these sites because every user agreed on an agreement when signing in, but who ever read the agreement? even myself rarely. for this reason social network(sites) owners provide the total control of personal profile to be divided into public (everyone) and private(permission). but is this enough?
if we don’t accuse them, how can we accept we kill ourselves to be punished tomorrow when it will be late? We cannot stop ourselves going to these places, myself i dont Twit and I don’t facebook, but I couldn’t refuse Linkedin, Youtube or MSN Live, because for some reason i needed it, but how are others who are every where with more that 300+ of friends and connections, this is the revolution of Second lives (Virtual world)..