Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Digital Footprints

Our digital footprint

The article by Hugl (2010) presented interesting discussions about privacy. Privacy as a concept can be viewed in different ways, including:


  • A personal desire to remain out of the public eye
  • The desire to remain safe and out of harm
  • The right to remain private (as opposed to just a desire)
  • In control of who sees or accesses your information
When I google myself, I don't see too much information, as I thought. I have made sure my facebook account and other OSN sites have as much privacy settings activated as I know about, however. From the readings I can assume this is maybe because I'm 44 years old, and most older people are more concerned with privacy. Another reason that I have ensured privacy settings is probably because I'm female, as Hugl comments are more likely to be concerned about security.


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