Social Media Scanning: The Next Generation Privacy Threat?
AUTHOR: Nikki Williams
PUBLISHED Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
First Impressions:
That it’s all about invading someone’s privacy by scanning through his/her social media.
Quote:
“data brokers collect and store billions of data elements covering nearly every U.S. consumer.”
Refection:
The article basically reveals that social media are vulnerable nowadays and can be used by some other groups or organization to spy on you. It is possible through the use of scanning software like Ditto, an advance type of software that can collect detailed information about the subject matter. This is very alarming in a sense of protecting your privacy especially if those information are that matters to you. Although the use of this scanning technology somehow helps some industries to develop and gain benefits for their businesses, some of them still use those information like what happened to a marketing analytics startup, Piqora that was found guilty in illegal use of information by keeping images of their competitors for later review. In our country, people are very keen to using different social media which is why this issue is a matter of concern for people in here. Some might not realize that their information that they share through this social media might be gathered and therefore compromise the security of their privacy. Worst thing is people have been too attached with these social media sites before they got to know the vulnerability of information that can be dangerous if have been compromised.
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