Data Privacy

The proper protection of data privacy is a complex task that requires a careful analysis of what actually has to be kept private – Vimercati

Technology has evolved exponentially over the last decade and has completely changed our lives. A variety of services and information can be accessed anywhere at any time using any device with an internet connection. While this situation has definitely involved huge benefits, it has also a crucial impact on users’ privacy and increased our need to protect private information. In fact, an increasing amount of personal information is collected, used, shared, and spread, including demographic and medical data, local information, emails, photos, and videos.

Devices that we use daily contain information that is essential to our lives, and possibly nothing contains as much information as an individual’s smartphone.

Sensitive information like addresses and phone numbers, passwords, account numbers, email, voicemail, and text message logs.

The amount of data that is stored on your phone and the consequences of having some or all of the data used by another person or an unauthorized company is nothing that an individual would like to experience.

The problem of ensuring proper protection to users’ privacy is urgent as privacy may have different forms: certain information about users should be kept private, the identity of users should be protected, and users’ actions should not be traceable.

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