Posted by NormalPerson in Privacy
When I think about telling my friends, my family or someone who isn't very connected with Internet and doesn't know about it, I don't think telling them "Internet isn't private, you need to take precautions" will make them aware of the situation, at least some part of the people.
You think this topic will be important for general public in years to come? Why?
Rambler wrote
Good question.
I think most people are aware of the privacy aspects, at least subconsciously. Even those who are just your normal, every day, average internet users who have zero technical background make jokes about, "Wow, I was talking about this with a friend and now I'm seeing ads for it everywhere." So, in a sense, they're aware but they they think it's coincidental or not a big deal that they're receiving targeted ads. Some, may even find it convenient.
For fun, here is a list of some large data breaches in the recent years that would impact your normal, every day internet user:
(List below made from https://www.upguard.com/blog/biggest-data-breaches )
CAM4, an adult streaming website, data breach with 10.88 billion records including: Full names, Email addresses, Sexual orientation, Chat transcripts, Email correspondence transcripts, Password hashes, IP addresses, Payment logs.
Yahoo. The data breach of 2017 with an impact of over 3 billion users. An investigation revealed that users' passwords in clear text, payment card data and bank information were not stolen. Nonetheless, this remains one of the largest data breaches of this type in history.
Aadhaar data breach of 2017 impacted over 1.1 billion people. This massive data breach was the result of a data leak on a system run by a state-owned utility company. The breach allowed access to private information of Aadhaar holders, exposing their names, their unique 12-digit identity numbers, and their bank details.
First American Financial Corp. In May 2019, First American Financial Corporation reportedly leaked 885 million users' sensitive records that date back more than 16 years, including bank account records, social security numbers, wire transactions, and other mortgage paperwork.
Verifications.io data breach. In February 2019, email address validation service verifications.io exposed 763 million unique email addresses in a MongoDB instance that was left publicly facing with no password. Many records also included names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders.
Facebook, impacting 540 million users.. In April 2019, the UpGuard Cyber Risk team revealed two third-party Facebook app datasets had been exposed to the public Internet. One, originating from the Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva, weighs in at 146 gigabytes and contains over 540 million records detailing comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs and more.
So, you asked:
It absolutely should be. 110% should be. But some people just don't care. A lot of the, "Well I have nothing to hide" crowd will willingly give away their information and not be absolutely outraged when it's misused or made available to the public through negligence or through malicious intent (or a combo of both).