Privacy, Online and Off
Since watching Andy Yen's TedTalk about our digital privacy I cannot use my email, websites or search engines that same. He goes on to explain how websites has complete access to our emails. Being that our emails is a major way to communicate any of our information, it is not a good thing that these websites have access to them. Every time we sign up for something or send a message to someone, people know to who it was for, what we were sending, and what thing we were giving our email to. I do not feel safe using my email anymore, and I am definitely going to use it less now.
Since we gave our emails to brands or companies, they are able to easily send us ads to our emails about "deals" or new products coming. While some may like getting these emails flooding their inboxes, the brand should not have been able to automatically send advertisements we should have had the choice to add additional emails about their brand. This also connects to ads when we are on search engines. If you are reading an article, for example, you will get ads on it on a brand you like or a different brand that relates to something you would enjoy. Any advertisements are curated to your like based on what you add your email to, what you click on online or on posts, what you search up, and what you like on apps like Instagram or TikTok. All of these things are connected in order to see what you like and what you would be interested in buying.
In this day in age, it is so important to keep your information safe since businesses and people in government constantly want to know what you are doing and liking online. People do not tend to think of their email being something that would not be private but it is one of the most public things about you. A way to keep your information private, we must be more and more careful with our personal information we are sending in our emails.
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