Information Privacy – the Dilemma of XXI Century

Currently we live in a digital word. The young generation is called digital natives. They are people whose entire lifes are connected with the Internet and new technologies. They listen and read books on the iPhone, search knowledge on Wikipedia and spend their free time on Facebook. They have lived in virtual space a few months earlier than in the real world, because they parents have put their ultrasound pictures for example on Twitter, Facebook or on their blogs.

The digital natives can’t live without computer or Internet. This is their second live in which they aren’t anonymous, because they put on the Internet privacy information about themselves. I think most of people put on the Internet some peace of their private information, because a lot of them use a bank account, e-mails, social utilities like Facebook, Twitter, GoldenLine. Especially children and youth are at the risk of ineligible using their private information. As we can see this in this report, 38 per cent of respondents will be able to put their first and last name on the Internet. Almost 30 per cent will be able to put their address on virtual space. I think that this is a lot. Plenty of young people put their photography on their blogs or on their accounts on Facebook (65 per cent). Some of those photos are very provocative, because people photograph themselves or their friends in peculiar situations for example when they are naked or almost nude, when they have sex, when they are drunk or just mess around. They don’t often realize how harm it could be for them in the future. However the reality is diverse. If you put something on the Internet just ones and then you delete this information or picture or film, you should be confident that this will still exist in virtual world.
Currently very popular are diverse social utilities. A lot of people enjoy them and I think it is good. But each of users of those utilities should know that all information about him or her are store on special servers and many people and companies use they for their own purposes. But on the other hand if we want to feel safe on the Internet, we should make some private information of us accessible only for administrator. In my opinion best advice is: be more deliberate and always think twice before put some information on the Internet. Here are some good advices… Check it out!

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