Protecting Personal Privacy

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As you people know that technology is life but can be dangerous to what we put on there, such as; inappropriate pictures, dirty messages, rumors about people that can cause fighting, and many more things. Sometimes people get hacked and they have no idea who hacked them so now people got to be careful what they do on their technologies. The good things maybe that you doing homework so u need a computer, need to fill a application, and just researching things. People can protect their personal privacy by not using it in a daily basis, don't put your information on social media. Also, don't keep your important information on your cellular device. An advice to protect your privacy is not o go on there on a daily basis. According to the text "Using cell phone in a responsible and safe way should also leave you with less reason to worry about if your call records or conversations will be accessed." This explains that cellular devices is not supposed to be used in a daily basis because that can be the problem that your phone had be hacked. That shows that your phone is over your life that means that that's all you care about is the phone cause you be on it …show more content…

"Unfortunately, data privacy in social media networks can be jeopardized in several ways." This shows that whatever you post on social media people can see it and turn it into a rumor like ASAP. Based on this information "The social media network itself may try to access your email address book to invite your friends to join the network too. In other cases, a social network may be obliged to hand over its user account information to a government agency, which is also a loss of data privacy." social media is a dangerous way to end your life. At the end it is better not to put your information on social networks like

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