WHAT IS PRIVACY?

Privacy is your right to control how information about you is used, processed, stored, or shared. If you ever go online, internet privacy should be one of your biggest concerns. Surf the web and you cant help but stumble on a new story about how much your personal data is collected while you enjoy your favorite sites. Think you've got nothing to hide? Think again.

KEY PRIVACY PRINCIPLES

Access/Participation

The point of access and participation is to let people about whom you have information find out what that information is, and contest its accuracy and completeness if they believe it is wrong. Many online systems currently lack the means to implement such processes securely. However, access is considered an essential element of fair information practices and privacy protection. In the context of business Web sites, the main obstacle to providing access and participation is a lack of cheap and secure methods of reliably identifying, that is, authenticating, the data subjects.

Integrity/Security

The fourth widely accepted principle is that data be accurate and secure. To assure data integrity, data collectors, like Web sites, must take reasonable steps, such as using only reputable sources of data and cross-referencing data against multiple sources, providing consumer access to data and destroying untimely data or converting it to anonymous form. Security involves both managerial and technical measures to protect against loss and the unauthorized access, destruction, use or disclosure of the data. Managerial measures include internal organizational measures that limit access to data and ensure that those individuals with access do not utilize the data for unauthorized purposes.

Choice/Consent

Like Notice/Awareness, this second principle should be addressed with honesty and sensitivity. Choice means giving consumers options as to how any personal information collected from them may be used. This relates to secondary uses of information, which the FTC describes as "uses beyond those necessary to complete the contemplated transaction." The FTC notes that "such secondary uses can be internal, such as placing the consumer on the collecting company's mailing list in order to market additional products or promotions, or external, such as the transfer of information to third parties."

Whether or not you are involved in deciding what use is made of personal information that comes from your Web site, you need to know whether you are going to give users of the site any choice in the matter, even if it is something as simple as a check box that says "You may e-mail me about special offers on related products."

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“In a world where everyone is over exposed, the coolest thing you can do is maintain your mystery.” It depends on you what privacy is. Broadly speaking, privacy is the right to be let alone, or freedom from interference or intrusion. Information privacy is the right to have some control over how your personal information is collected and used.

There are circumstances in which we need to tell others our own privacy. But surely, we are not going to let them know all. Each of us should have our own extent as we reveal our secrets. Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

We keep private journals, sing in the shower, and write letters to secret lovers and then burn them. Sometimes there may still be some secrets that we keep from others. This is the other type of privacy. It can be our feelings deep inside our hearts, or it may be the way how we think things are going on. We are afraid of others discovering it because we don’t want to be found silly in having this kind of feeling, or it maybe the desire to leave some ‘room’ for ourselves. As a result, we only keep this in our mind. Although it seems that the first type is more important, one should never attempt to disclose any of others’ privacy illegally for this is an offensive act.

I have password in my cellphone and it is for security purposes. For example, in case of theft, it is a sudden and unexpected occurrence. You don’t exactly see it coming, if in the meantime, you lose your phone, anybody who finds your phone will have access to all your information. And also, I put password to monitor others’ use of my device because most mobile apps that I use require account login when you first connect to these apps, and once connected, you will stay connected until you decide to log off so it is risky if you don’t have password everyone have access to your account. But to answer the question “Is it okay for you that someone knows your password on your cellphone or Social Media account?” Yes, it is okay for me for cellphone password, but only for people I know and they inform me that they borrow my phone then I give my password, In Social media account I think it is something personal and it’s not meant to be shared.  Privacy is a basic human need. Privacy protects us from abuses and everyone should have privacy even when we have nothing to hide.