Perhaps applications, search engines and social networks may know your secrets that your close friends may not know.Journalist Sofia Smith Ghiller has tried a new program called "Data Ditox" to explore what these sites and applications know about her personal life.
When I initially read the "Data Ditox" program, or get rid of data that in the long run might lead to negative consequences, I thought it was evidence of completely interruption from the Internet, and this means to me eliminate my career.But this eight -day program helps you, in fact, explore and organize your digital life.
This program was designed by the unbarns of profit, namely "Mozilla" and "Tactic Technology Colic Cole", in conjunction with the inauguration of the "Glass Rom" exhibition in London, which calls on its visitors to discover what is happening for their hidden data.
"The user of the" Data Ditox "program can reduce the information available on the Internet in easy and practical steps in less than half an hour per day. We hope this program will contribute to changing people's view of data collection."
Therefore, I decided to go through the experiment myself and transfer its results day by day.
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The first day aims to alert the user to the amount of information available about him via search engines.Of course, because I am a journalist and the children of the millennium generation, I discovered that many of my life details are available on the Internet.
And if you delete the browsing record, and search for your name in a search engine like Google, you will see all the pictures and links related to your name on the Internet, as others see it.To this extent, the results did not raise my fears, because I published almost all this information.
However, the matter changed when I searched in other search engines, such as "DAC DAC Go", which is a search site that is not intended for profit, and this means that unlike Google has no interest in collecting information from your browsing record, nor from providing research results that suit you onPrivate face.
This engine can complete the sentence you are looking for automatically, using other sources, such as Yahoo, Peng and Yandex sites.When I wrote my name in the Google engine, based on the research of others in this engine, I am working for the BBC, unlike the DAC DAC Go engine.
And you immediately wondered, did someone not search for my name?Is it because of my articles, or the party I work for?However, this highlights the impact of the topics that others search for on our digital habits and behaviors.
The program asks you on the second day: "Are Google promised your friend?"I discovered that Google is already my closest friend.
Then the program asks you about the information you share with Google, and will you disclose the same information for your close friend?
Because I use Google Crome Web Browser Products and Applications, the application of documents, email "Gmail", translation, "YouTube" application, and maps, this means that Google knows my place, the device that he used and the questions that occur in my mind, and the work that was assigned to it.
Add to that the message that I write on the email, and even the bank, the doctor, and the service provider of the phone, which I deal with, the words that I do not know in other languages, and everything I desire, learn, or I would like to listen to it, the places I have visited in the past, and the numberThe times I visited, and the details of my movements from one place to another.
It is true that my close friend knows a lot about me, but she does not know all this information.
And if you have an Android phone, Google has a record of all the search requests that you recorded with your voice through its products and applications, and this means that Google can identify your voice as well.
But the "Ditox" program guides you to the steps to cancel your previous activities on Google's services and products step by step.
This day was better than its predecessors, because I realized that I no longer publish anything on Facebook, and this is due to the phenomenon of "the collapse of the social context", which means the overlap of all social contexts with each other, so that the audience that addresses it and the context that addresses them in it cannot be classified.This phenomenon has become a source of concern for Facebook.
While I was publishing in adolescence all my news and activities with my friends on Facebook, I am now publishing pictures of the places I visited on Instagram, and news articles on Twitter.
The pages of many Facebook users have become full of embarrassing pictures and comments that their friends mentioned in childhood, and they remain in their digital record.Is it time to delete your name from these pictures and comments or ask your friends to delete them?
Each time you like it on the Facebook and Twitter button, other companies, through the tracking systems that you own, have information about the pages you visited and the things you like, and the address of your internet protocol.
But there are a lot of hidden tracking systems that monitor your habits and tendencies online.And if the company has trackers in many sites, it will have a comprehensive record of your habits in browsing websites.
The privacy settings with the Internet browser do not provide adequate protection for the user, and for this the program is advised to adjust it yourself, or to use a special browsing mode, as in the safari browser, or the hidden situation, as in the Chrome browser, so that your browsing record does not store the sites.
You can also prevent hidden tracking systems from spying on you by downloading programs and additions that enhance safety in the Internet browser.In addition, the sites whose title begins with "HTTPS", not "http", ensures that the information transferred from your device will be encrypted.
The program also warns that: "Special or hidden browsing blocks some of your information about other sites and tracking systems, but it does not hide your identity from others on the Internet."
The program says on the fifth day that "your mobile phone seeks to prove its presence through the permanent transmission of signs whenever it has the opportunity, and communicate with any signals it encounters on its way."
Our phones all the time are looking for wireless internet networks or Bluetooth network, and if you give your name on your device when connected to the Internet, imagine the number of people you have to be named.
The geographical location of the device is another source of concern.You can reduce valuable information about your geographical location that gives it free to companies that collect data, and you can stop connecting to wireless networks, when you do not need them.
Perhaps it requires services to track the site of meditation and caution, because of the information it reveals about your place of residence and work, the places you visit in free time, and the lifestyle you live, for everyone who has the right to access this information.
This may result in many consequences, including that every wireless internet network connects to it will see the list of other networks that I have contacted in the past, because most networks have a name that is easy to identify.
This means that the owner of the company in which he works can theoretically know that you have applied, in secret, to get a job in the competing company.
It is also possible to know who dates or your husband is the places where another person is dating by tracking wireless internet networks in these places.
The applications that your phone also fill in a lot of data excessive, and the more applications more than 40 applications, you become an easier target for those looking for data.The simplest way to organize your data is to delete the applications that you do not use.
As for applications that you cannot do without, such as social media applications, you can adjust the privacy settings in them.
There are also alternative applications that allow you to communicate with others without making money from selling your information, such as "Skype", in addition to other applications such as "Ghetsi", "Mitt" and "Segnal", all of which are not intended for profit, free and open source.
Both the Facebook and Google platform infer your specifications based on your online activity in order to spread your secrets to the advertiser companies, and you can see these specifications recorded by Google and Facebook about you by going to the ads settings directed to the user.
Nevertheless, Google knows only my life, and Facebook also does not know me enough, and displaying wrong information about my work and hobbies, but he knew the devices that I have and thinks that I love having modern technological devices and shopping.
There is no doubt that this information helps Facebook in determining the quality of the ads that are directed to you, and for this when your data occurs on Facebook, whenever an important event comes in your life, such as changing the job, marriage, or childbearing, you also tell him that your habits in spending will change soon.
However, the dark side is that these data collected by Facebook may also be used to measure the psychological factors of users and their personal behaviors for the purpose of determining their inclinations in electoral vote, or their feeling about some individuals in society.
Facebook has already allowed some advertisers to deliver their messages to some of the "Jews' hatred", and also allowed others to block advertisements for specific races.In 2016, a car insurance company has reached an application that predicts user driving patterns based on the number of exclamation marks they use.
So, you may be worth thinking for some time before you click on the "Agree" button.
The program is recommended to set weekly or monthly goals to avoid the accumulation of data again.You can use the reminder feature of the phone to change the password, delete the browsing record, and evaluate your use of social media sites from time to time.
The program also presented a list of alternative applications that provide you with privacy and safety higher than others, and it is advised to create separate email accounts for each aspect of your digital life.
The program reminds you on that day: “In order for your new digital style to succeed, try to attract your friends and family members to try the program, because their online activity affects you. The more your friends remind you of their photos, or send information about you on the sites, the data available on you on the Internet increasesWhatever you are keen to hide it. "
