WiiGirl76 said:
Yep absolutely, there are websites claiming not to share your personal information with others, but some do and if you ask me... that's just as much as illegal as people using the information. Welcome back? I haven't been gone I visit this website daily but don't always feel like to post in some threads. To be honest I don't feel like reading the same discussion over and over again The so called flaming-at-other-consoles threads I'm personally totally fed up with. Glad to see I was missed then Edit: @Legend11, how scary, that must have been terrible! Luckily it didn't happen with me that way, but I landed on websites with my face of which you would totally embarass when your family would see that. I found out about that, when I received the most weirdest E-mails. Despite I didn't experience the same nightmare as you I'm very cautious in real life and even more on the Internet. |
actually interestingly enough I'm doing a research paper on this very topic right now (well, actually, I SHOULD be doing a research paper on this topic right now but instead I'm procrastinating by reading this forum rather than doing my work)
you'll find that in many countries a privacy policy is legally binding, but in many countries it isn't. When you submit your information over the Internet not only should you ensure that you have thoroughly read the privacy policy but you should look at what country the server is in and what type of protection they provide. You should also double check the information you give as a lot of seemingly innocent data can be put together to track you very effectively.
There are quite a few technical solutions to this however none of them are really that widespread, unfortunately. Hopefully we see improvements on privacy management but unfortunately it seems there isn't much money involved in the process =(
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