Information Data

How is your Information obtained?
What do most people think when the word Social Media comes up? Most people think that it helps them meet and communicate with people all around the world. Others may think social media is a channel that gives them a chance to send and receive information. But what do these social media sites actually do with our information privacy and how do they obtained it. All information posted on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and forums are up for grasp..

Jules Polonetsky, director and co-chair of the Future of Privacy Forum, said online users have no clue that a comment they made on a blog is being added to a database for some unknown use.

Researchers found that most sites leak people's private information to a third-party tracking sites. This information allows third-party sites to connect the records they received from user's browsing behavior with their profiles on social sites. Most mobile social networks track a user's geographic through Facebook messages and through Instagram photos. Study also shows enabling social media sites to track you even enables third-party sites to continue to track a user's location even when a phone being unused or used for other applications. So, a person turning on their location data can be tracked by people who aren't even their friends. Most victims to this diploma are teens who just don't know as much as they should about the dangers of their privacy being public. This danger allows for random predators to stalk people and something worse can happen such as hacking and identity theft.