Online Privacy

 What level of privacy will we have online in the future?

Researchers have been questioning if people are going to share their personal data freely or have they become over protective about private information?

Changing private policies that some websites offer, are minor part of the story. Companies have been trying to figure out the privacy demands of users, and there are government regulations, industry standards and rules that vary across operating systems.

Companies have provided free services to balance the privacy concerns of customers and serving advertisers. But the way the Internet makes money is by advertisers.

Privacy is becoming more of a concern for customers, and the the demand for stronger data control has increase to about 75% according to a Microsoft survey. "Do not track" is a new feature that is being introduced in all the major browsers, but it has been difficult to enforce since there are standards for the web to make it official.

If privacy concerns keep rising there will be more issues in the future, since more devices are being connected to the internet it is easier to collect more data about a person. Location data are already being tagged by photos, tweets or other online actions.

There will probably be future options that balance between sharing information and cutting off all data. Not everyone will want the same level of privacy, so options and customization will have to be made available.


I believe that there will never be full control of online privacy, there are too many public records that we cannot control and users also put a lot of private information out by themselves for example on Facebook, Twitter or any other media, we tag ourself and let everyone know where we are or were we have been and that lets anyone have your personal data.

Internet privacy over the internet consist of the availability to control who can see it and control who has access to that information. There are people out there that say that privacy does not exist over the internet.