For this semester's last slog, I am going to talk something about my opinion of privacy problems we discussed in the lecture on Tuesday.
For the time I have come to Canada, I have met a lot of situations of asking about my private information. I have to say, that makes me annoy. I have to say, there are so many donations in Canada, and there is an organization called "I am a Girl". This organization's members always standing on the street, and ask passengers to make donations. Unfortunately, I got stopped once, and they introduced a lot of information to me, and finally convinced me to do the donation, and they also got my credit card information. However, I do not want to do this donation any more, because I am a student, I actually have no money for myself, but I have to provide 25 dollars each month to them, which make me short of money every month. And in the lecture, Prof. Heap also talked that we never know where those money actually goes. So sometimes we really need to be careful about providing private information of ourselves.
This lecture also reminded me about my management lecture, we talked about long distance calling these days. With the high speed of development of technology, the price of call different countries is extremely low recently, and it is surprisingly almost the same as local calling. So some abroad promotions appear. There is a company named "Duck Cleaning", and it is located in India, but everyday they have a certain group of people to call different countries to promote they products. But the thing is, "how do they get our phone numbers?" This is a serious problem. For phone numbers, we can say they are private information, but at the same time we need to give our phone numbers to other people, so at the same time, phone numbers are not private information. However, we want to take control on our information so that we can share our information to people we want them to know. Unfortunately, the reality is not as ideal as what we thought. Our information has been sold to other people, and even other countries. And our information also helps the information provider earn lots of money by selling our private information to others.
So from above I have experienced, I have to say that if we do not take care of our information, and if we are not aware of protect our own information, then our information will risk our life. So we really need to be careful about providing our information, and then we can avoid those things happen.
