Online Privacy

These days all we hear about is Online Privacy, or Internet Privacy, no matter how you call it's all the same, Privacy Issues within the web; specially in social networking site that have become so popular in the last years. With the creation of Facebook and the continued popularity of MySpace many people are giving their personal information out on the internet, these sites keep track of what people do while they are visiting the site, and save that info for later. Most of us are no aware that we can modify the privacy settings if we want to.

 Recently the FTC released a report on how to protect the user from privacy violations. While this might help just a bit, I think that if you don't want to feel like your privacy if being violated you can follow this simple suggestions from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I'm a firm believer that if you want thing to change you have to do something about it, and not just expect that people, in this case the Government, is going to solve them for you.


I don't know about you, but in my case I still  really haven't felt like my privacy in being invaded, I'm only get junk mail from web sites where I have previously disclosed information. I might be a bit extreme in this point, but like I said before, if you don't want your private information on the web, don't disclose it. For me is as simple as that.