Monday, February 14, 2011

How much is too much?

When looking into the privacy of emailing, texting and twitter we see that there isn’t much of a difference when it comes to privacy. Privacy is basically doesn’t exist online and people need to be aware of what they are putting online for others to see. Its really important in today’s society right?  If not, why is every website having a privacy protection statement?

When it comes to this it can be a big issue but its the right sense of control about the info about yourself. When it comes to email privacy there is a problem with regards to that individual’s privacy and the people using the email in terms of accessing personal info. Privacy protection of email has very well less defined than any other type of communication. When we talk about email there exists an illusion of privacy which is created by having a password to sign into one’s personal email account or phone for that matter.

Many people don’t have much of a great understanding about what really goes on when they send an email at work or even just simply a personal email from home.  When it comes to knowing the business process behind it all, people don’t know how it works and simply privacy protection controls such as safeguard.
            

  Based on some of the information that I found,if you send a message to another person that email that you just sent can be viewed to just about every possible computer that it has passed though. Another example of privacy concerns, people who hack computers can possible get your IP address and use your person info. The trend with most businesses now is the common and frequent use of emailing. Businesses today consider an employee emailing at work to be corporate property.


Resources:
   
Email Privacy Article

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