Your Privacy Isn't So Private

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You should rethink your online privacy. Everything we think may be secure, but what about your privacy do you not know. These days corporations, websites, and social media have so much access to the things we consider PRIVATE. Juan Enriquez and Catherine Crump both discuss privacy in TED Talks. Juan expresses how privacy can be much like a permanent tattoo and Catherine's informative video exposes the dangerous details by which law enforcement by use to track you. What if all the social media you use, LinkedIn, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc were all electronic tattoos. They provide information about you, just as a tattoo would. It's more than electronic tattoos, it is also in facial recognition.  You can track people with pictures, and find everything about them. Juan speaks about a company called Face.com they have about 18 billion faces online. They were sold to Facebook on June 18, 2012. Companies place cameras and they take pictures and tie them to social media. They use these photos to determine who you are? When all of us are close to immortality, these tattoos will live much longer than we will. We wonder how Instagram and Facebook can track our likes and dislikes, they generate ads and sponsorships for us based on what recent searches are on our phone. Recently Apple has publicly stated that the privacy of its customers is the number one priority. Apple states that privacy is a fundamental human right, and it is one of the core values at Apple. They have designed apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information.










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