Topic

Online Platforms-Security and Privacy of Personal Information

Instructions

The amount of personal information available on the Internet is frightening. Anonymous users can discover your name, DOB, place of address (with photo), email address(es), dating profiles, phone number, likes, dislike, family relatives, social media accounts, and photos …the list goes on and on.

Requirements: Using https://inteltechniques.com/menu.html, or other tools (ex. Google), research the information available on yourself. Try to find all of the information listed above (even if some of it might be inaccurate) and make sure to list the sites (URLs) you found it on. If you cannot find a specific information, explain what you tried to do in order to find it. Then, answer these four questions:

What are the advantages and disadvantages (or dangers) of these tools?
Were you aware that this information was online?
Does knowledge of this information on these sites make you vulnerable?
What steps could you take to make this information harder to obtain? (give example of actual, specific steps)

Answer preview

It is evident that the amount of personal information available on the internet raises privacy, safety and security concerns. Presently, the administrators of social media platforms and the users can access the other users’ profiles and extract valuable data due to the advancement in technology. The improvements in technology allows anonymous users to access the email addresses, photos, date of birth, the active social media account, family relatives, names, dating profile and phone numbers that all compromise the privacy and security of the social media user.

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