How secure is your data? I mean, do you even think about it? We lock our doors the moment we get home, we keep our pin numbers secret, and we don’t discuss the spoilers of TV shows with people who haven’t seen them yet. Security is a big part of our lives, but people tend to overlook data security even though it could have potentially huge ramifications on our lives.
Our attitude to data security tends to be about trusting tech companies to be moral and respect our data privacy. Let us be the first to disappoint you—Whatsapp was recently fined €225m by the EU for sharing user information with companies under Facebook.
While they’ve since promised end-to-end encryption for user messages, it’s a signal to us that we should start paying more attention to our data, and specifically what is being stored on the cloud under our names.
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