Wednesday 23 January 2013

How Internet is a Threat to Privacy For Everyone

Internet privacy refers to the secrecy of someone’s personal or business related information on the web. Internet privacy can be a matter of concern for individual and for company or someone’s online base business. It’s a growing concern nowadays to be secure in terms of privacy while using internet. Individual or a company can be threatened by bad people if they come to know personal information or company privet information.
As most of the internet users do not know about the privacy security in internet, they are facing a lot of problems nowadays. Different websites and applications are directly or indirectly stealing your personal information and observing all the moves you do on the internet. Some website use software or type of applications that track you that let them know what you are doing online and what type of things you are searching for. Some advertising company can take the advantage of it and show relevant advertise based on your browsing history. To open accounts on different websites including the social networking sites, you are asked for bank accounts, credit card and other personal information. Moreover the cookies are some kind of data that are sent to your computer by the every website you browser to be stored or saved in your computer, which can be a means for those website to track your internet moves. Spyware is another possible threat for your internet privacy because it’s something that help other know your online behavior.
Using email can be a cause of privacy threat. There are some people who send malware attaching with random spamming mail. Once you download the attached file the malware get saved in your computer and give third parties access to you personal information. Moreover downloading different mp3, video, images and software can also cause privacy threat as malware can be downloaded with the downloaded file. Different facebook applications can also be a privacy threat, as you are asked to access the application to your facebook profile to use the application.
ALL the possible threat mentioned here can let third parties access to your personal information and if the third parties have any illegal intention, can cause a lot of losses.
Form the discussion above it is clear that using internet nowadays has become a big matter of concern in terms of privacy security. so everyone should have a minimum idea of using internet with no threat of privacy security.
 
 

No comments:

Post a Comment