Tussle Online Privacy

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How would human life change if we took away the internet? This question is something humans do not want to talk about since becoming so dependent on internet and technology. The growth that technology has taken in such a short time has made the internet powerful and has completely consumed humans as a whole. It’s changed the way we do everyday things, like finding out how to work on your car instead of going and paying for a mechanic. The internet dominates our lives but who dominates it?
Large corporations are the answer. When taking a look at the most frequently used websites with the biggest influence on human life, large corporations can be named as controlling the internet and us. This control corporations have over humans is troublesome …show more content…

For instance, when shopping at FashionNova.com if an online shopping cart is left with items in it and the tab has been closed, the company uses Facebook Messenger and contacts personal accounts with their cart information and when it will expire. This is a creepy corporate tactic to get customers to buy what they left on the website. In the article The Tussle Around Online Privacy, the author states that it is becoming more and more common for online businesses to collect personal information based on preferences including what is searched for online and what has been purchased (Erramilli, 69-71). This link to social media and data sharing is evident in online stores such as Fashion Nova. The sharing of social media accounts and linking a Facebook account with another website results in personal information being shared. Linking accounts with these big corporations like Facebook and Amazon is even bigger than first realized as well. These companies have bought out so many other businesses information is being automatically sent to subsidiaries. For example, as most people know, Google owns YouTube and Android.
Social media linking is only one-way corporations can “data mine” and get information from consumers. When potential customers log onto online stores, they are almost immediately asked for personal information such as name, email address, and telephone number. This is the type of surveillance that we are technically aware of but stays in the back of our mind. What we as consumers may not realize is that when we give away even basic information like our phone number, we are giving companies not only a way to be in contact with us but track our every move. (Froomkin,

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