Facebook and Other Looming Privacy Scandals

The gravity of the privacy scandal rocking Facebook is better understood from the tone of the CEO - Mr Mark Zuckerberg's apology - "We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't, we don't deserve it. ...This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time. We're now taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again." Yet, users appear betrayed beyond consolation as evidenced by a massive #deletefacebook user boycott campaign devaluing the company's stock by $50 Billion within days. That's a clear reflection of the painful injury inflicted on victims who every one, has my heartfelt sympathy. But hopping on the #deletefacebook wagon could have been forestalled by realizing much earlier that no one can be anonymous on the Internet as honestly admitted by Mr. Zuckerberg in his apology: "You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014. ...We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected." But you can spare yourself all that particularly on Facebook and generally, on the Internet by reading this book now! In fact, apart from strangers being able to access any information posted online, how they would use such information is unimaginable. For instance, supplying details about your hobbies, job, family, friends or life story could arm criminals with sufficient information to mount an attack. Publishing something online is like broadcasting to the world. Although you could subsequently edit an information, members of the public may already have the maiden copy in their kitty or cached copies of removed web pages could still be available. Therefore, be proactive about your security - even on the Internet by marshalling your defence against cyber, computing and telephone security threats armed with this book consisting in eight chapters on: Privacy and Security Expectations: Asking for Too Much?; Weaponry in Cyber Attacks; Internet Connectivity and Security Issues; Web Browsers and Secure Browsing; Emails and Implications for Security; General Computing Security; Preventing and Reacting to Identity Theft and; Telephone Security.

• | Author: John Uwaya
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1987418611
• | ISBN-13: 9781987418613