The reading refers to data as “collected insights.” Within modern, technological products, personal data can be stored online through web browsers, apps, etc. The use of this is to make such products more individualized and subjective towards the specific user, therefore their personal data is often stored through cookies, log-in services, etc. However, the not only does this make technology more efficient when logging on to different browsers, as well as particular functions becoming more efficient to load as well, because they are being used more frequently. Personal data storage creates the risk of another person viewing such data, as because it is stored, someone has to be able to reach it. Specifically, because the data exists in the first place, an individual has the ability to obtain this. The problem here is that data storage is serving as a means for potential identity fraud, loss of information, etc; it is serving as a lens for online malicious intent. People can figure out a way to keep track of someone’s technological habits and patterns, people can track someone else’s location using data found online, people can potentially even find medical records, addresses, and extremely private information if they look in the right places. Therefore, a problem presents where the existence of online personal data storage, rises the existence of malicious intent using such data. Although this may be speculation, I think that this problem is probable because not every single user on the internet, person online, etc. is trustworthy enough to not do these things. Due to the fact that there are inexplicably “bad” people in the world (and things regarding it,) personal data that is stored online, and really anywhere else, can never be completely safe from invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The reading refers to data as “collected insights.” Within modern, technological products, personal data can be stored online through web browsers, apps, etc. The use of this is to make such products more individualized and subjective towards the specific user, therefore their personal data is often stored through cookies, log-in services, etc. However, the not only does this make technology… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19627,87686],"tags":[19627,870,97024],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-keywords","tag-data","tag-fraud","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}