Blog Post #2

 Santiago's Blog Post about privacy and security - https://jstr223.wixsite.com/website-3/post/data-surveillance-still-being-watched

a new article I found - https://www.bullguard.com/bullguard-security-center/internet-security/social-media-dangers/privacy-violations-in-social-media

While doing a little bit of internet surfing about Santiago's topic of privacy and security I found an article from an interesting source. This source is from a security company (certainly a stakeholder in this topic). While Santiago's post talks more about the legislation put in place (or lack thereof) protecting people's privacy, the article I found talks more about what type of breaches are happening. A new vocabulary word for me from the article I found was "data scraping". This essentially is just some third party company that buys or collects all the data from someone's social media or accounts. This data scraping takes record of their interactions with other users, their likes, comments, frequently visited areas of an app, etc. I thought this was interesting because although I had heard recently about privacy breaches in things like TikTok and Facebook I didn't realize just how big it was, that these companies are compiling literally ALL of our data. I'm trying to keep in mind that this necessarily isn't a malicious act (although I would consider it a breach in privacy) because they're mostly just doing it to better market to their audience. However, I think if people within those companies did want to commit some evil act they could easily do so by compiling our data and seeing the trends. The other thing I found interesting about this article was that it tried to give ways to stay safe from these breaches of privacy. It really said there wasn't much you could do overall, but one thing it mentioned was access to "cookies". It described cookies as "quiet stalker" which I found a very good description of what it does. Just watching everything you do on that website you allowed it on and recording it. While, again, this isn't necessarily harmful, it could be if put into the wrong hands.