3) Personal Information Disclosure

01.11.2011 Tuesday Class / Fourth Presentation / Personal Information Disclosure

When you try to join the website, you have to input your personal information. Is it reasonable?

 Using the personal information to join the website is quite old problem in Korea. Before, the problem start because of anonymity issue on online but now, there are so many problems because of hacking from China. So already this subject is bring up by people so many times. So, what do you think about this problem? Actually, Thesedays we have to open our personal information so many times to big companies. For example, even you want to get after service for repair to your computer, you have to give them to your name and social security number. So maybe putting it up your personal information on website is very easy to you because already you got used to this kind of process but I thitnk its very serious problem.

 I think hacking problem causes so many problems now but most important thing is " Is it reasonable to enter your information on the website? ". So many people say some of website have to and the others are not like our discussion in last time. But I think you really don't need to write your information to any website. Because online is just online world. Its not real world and you don't need to show to everybody about yourself. There's no reason to put your information to write an e-mail to your friend or make the comment on online news something like that. I think just put your real name and e-mail addresss just in case when you forget your ID and password. That's it. Also its so simple and safe from so many problems.  Also its very easy to exposed your information to everybody and its causes another problems too.

 Because of this kind of reasons, I think putting my personal information in website is disaster.

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