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How Important Is Privacy To You? - Paradoxium - 01-22-2014
The internet is a platform most of us cannot live without today. Its fundamental level is data storage, which is a CRUD system (Create, read, update, delete). It can't function without these four fundamental commands. Two examples are seen here:
![[Image: 74fdcb2568872092899595aa3c5bf3db.png?1363597576]](http://gyazo.com/74fdcb2568872092899595aa3c5bf3db.png?1363597576)
Some of the largest social networks and service providers however are not utilizing a CRUD system but rather a CRU system or a CRU system with a delayed D-command
(over a period of time).
Privacy is not only making sure your personal life or private information is kept secret, but also assuring you have the right and possibility to remove accessibility to content linked to you, for example an embarrassing picture you don't want others to see anymore.
Facebook photos are still accessible and existing even after the uploader has 'deleted' this content. Test it out yourself by uploading a picture or choosing an existing one, right-clicking it and copying the picture URL, then delete the photo on Facebook and try the URL, it will display the picture you have just 'deleted'.
According to a few articles such as this one, Facebook is working on it. I however personally don't understand how you can be 'working on actually deleting the photos' for this long? They simply don't want to yet.
Google, including most of its products and services such as Google+, Blogger, YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps and more store your search history and personal preferences and link this to your Google account. When you delete your history, this data still remains alive for a full 9 months on the server side. After 9 months, your IP is cleared off the logs to anonymize these logs. Cookie information is deleted after 18 months. Your ISP usually stores this for 12 months but that depends on your ISP. Source
You can't actually clear or delete date which is directly linked to you and your browsing behavior even if you want to. The client-side removal of the web history is merely an illusion.
If you want to completely clear all of the client-side logs Google has been gathering, log in onto your Google account through Gmail or YouTube for example, and click this link: https://www.google.com/history
On the right, click on settings and disable Web History as well as delete all history.
Quote:Important: Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.
- How important is privacy to you?
- In case you've just learned something new by reading this thread, does this have an influence on your surfing behavior?
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - Nefarious - 01-22-2014
Privacy should be important to everyone, there are steps that can be taken to protect yourself.
Everyone should learn at some point.
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - LindaKay - 01-28-2014
Yeah, all of that stuff really bothers me. I don't like the fact that I can look at a website once and have ads for it plastered all over my browser for the rest of the week.
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - pandandesign - 01-28-2014
It is always to protect yourself from being watched by third-party, and privacy is important for everyone. I have always be careful when comes to privacy and thus, all personal information should be protected securely.
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - Saikou - 01-28-2014
If you don't know how to protect your privacy on the Internet, you probably don't even know how to Internet.
Also:
4th Amendment -
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - Illuminati - 02-16-2014
To be fair, I really could care less if I were being stalked. I don't really do anything exciting, there's no reason for someone to stalk me. There's hundreds of millions of people using the internet, I doubt I'd stand out. I really don't mind the NSA either.
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - Skitstep - 02-17-2014
I feel like privacy is very important and everyone needs to learn how to protect themselves somehow. Best way to protect yourself is to not do anything bad to make people suspicious in the first place.
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - safa100 - 02-18-2014
Privacy is the most important thing for every one because it has a number of secret save in its memory.
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - Tersuss - 02-18-2014
Privacy is an incredibly important thing for me in particular, especially when searching the web, I honestly don't think that everything I do should be seen by everyone, for example the ways I make money on websites, is no-ones business but my own etc.
RE: How Important Is Privacy To You? - warmweatherwoman - 02-18-2014
privacy no longer exists to me now that we are all aware of the NSA's actions. Social media just paved the way for them to be in every aspect of our lives. As far as pictures being available after deleting- I think that is crazy! But then again...the saying goes..once on the internet...always on the internet.