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Broadband users 'need more control over personal information'
Tuesday 25th May 2010, by Daniel King
Internet service providers have come under fire to provide their users with more control over personal information.
By putting our details on to sites like Facebook, we are ultimately supplying the world with an "extension of [our] physical body" for everyone and anyone to do with what they like.
Jac sm Kee, womens' rights and information and communication technologies project coordinator at the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), believes that we should get more control over who sees this information.
And I agree!
She said: "The important thing really is how to provide this sense of control to the user - at minimum, definitely not the complicated opt-out privacy controls that are so favoured by Facebook."
Ms Kee's comments come at the same time that Facebook announced it is going to make changes to the privacy settings on its social networking site, in order to regain people's trust.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the company, told the Washington Post that it will add easier-to-use privacy controls, provide a more straightforward way to turn off third-party services and give its users greater control over how their information is used.
Surely it would have been easier to do this in the first place?
He continued that the idea was to give Facebook users "granular controls", but recognises that this "may not have been what [we] wanted".
All we can do is hope and have confidence that when we input information into the internet, someone has taken responsibility to look after it!
Categories: Internet Security
