Nowhere to hide

It's not a good day for your privacy – just sit down and relax as they tend to track you more and more

Nowadays there are lots of serious discussions on violation of civil rights, and the consequences of these arguments remain very unclear. The question of privacy, especially the privacy in the Internet is one of the most important and heavily discussed ones among them.

The problems appear the very moment you've gone online. First you just surf the Net, navigating through numerous websites. Although the sites don't know your name at this point, they still try to collect the possible information about you, and what is seen in their databases really excites. For example, it is possible to obtain the specifications of your computer and your web browser as well as your current location. To say more, they can even know something about your personality by, for example, tracking your search requests.

Then it turns out that a plenty of the useful services on the Internet require the users to be registered, so you're made to tell not only your name (which is possible to invent if you don't want your real name to be known), but often also your e-mail address and your mobile phone number. Now all your online activity is linked to your actual data. Obviously, the privacy policies of the majority of such services assure us that the personal information of this kind is used only in users' favour etc. However, judging by several cases we can say that when it comes down to a government request, the information on you is easily given and the conditions of use allow the services to act in this way. Finally, if you have some personal files, such as your photos, online, you've got to be prepared to find out that you're actually not the only owner because generally the government and the hackers can simply access it, and the more information you share on social networks, the more aspects of your life the world knows.

So I believe that as for today, the best way to protect your privacy and prevent lack of your personal data is not to use Internet. We can try our best to reduce the privacy issues, but no one who uses the Net is really anonymous and safe at this point.