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Word "PRIVACY", no longer exists in today's world and every single person should be aware of this harsh reality. Basically, just assume nothing you put on your computer or internet is private.
According to a study published by Christopher Spinelli (corporate comm. ELON UNIVERSITY), it has been found that, on average, Facebook users spend about 6 hours 30 minutes on social media, every month. According to him, "Social Media can't be a Friend of Personal Privacy."
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A recent facebook scandal has raised a lot of questions about privacy, ethics, confidentiality and the responsibility of tech companies who stores the personal information of billions of users.
One of the most important things to remember is that as a social platform user, you are not the customer but you are the product. The tech companies i.e Facebook, Google or Microsoft, all of them are selling your likes-dislikes, habits to companies that want to advertise to you. They provide your minute details to these advertisers. Thus, for them the real customer is advertising companies. It's hard to imagine the scope of what these companies know about you.
Similarly Google also searches keywords in emails; knows everything that you have watched on YouTube, and stores every location you've ever been to and for how long you were there.
Now there are increased number of privacy complaints against big tech firms all over the world, continue with accusations of "deception by design", and the use of "dark patterns". Thus it's apparent that Google, Facebook and other online service providers harvest your data just to make huge profits.
Besides all of these discussions, allegations and accusations there is something more important to discuss i.e what should be done to ensure online safety and privacy, how to enforce the accountability on these tech firms and make sure that no one should be abused.
Keep sharing and be safe!!