WiiGirl76 said:
omgwtfbbq said:
WiiGirl76 said:
That's why I don't put down any personal pictures and info about myself down on websites as this has happened to me once. Someone called to me why I don't put down pictures of myself around here. I like to stay unknown as much as possible, not because I like it, but to pretect myself and the people I know. It's a strange world we're living in... that is.. it's a world with strange people we're living in ;) Don't delete your account, aks the help of the mods, don't answer those mails, but just ignore that stuff and try not to open yourself too much, in the sake of yourself and your family, that's my advice. I get all kinds of spam and hackers in my mailbox who try to get on to me, but luckily there's a nice delete button on top of the mailbox. Without opening them it's... so long! Good luck to you  |
you would be amazed at how much personally identifiable information might be released around at different places without you noticing that can be used to track you down. Don't forget that when AOL accidentally released 100,000 search queries with "no personally identifiable information" in them, it was possible to track down and find (as in, go to the houses of) some of the people in the list. be careful what you put on the internet, even if it seems innocent you can put together a lot of seemingly innocent pieces of information and use each one to get closer and closer to identifying someone EDIT: welcome back, by the way,thought you had left us (there seems to be a pretty large turnaround here, or maybe everyone just keeps changing their avatars and I don't pay much attention) |
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 =(
