(Fast Company) The introduction of the internet and instant global communication drastically changed our approach to personal privacy. Every app, purchase, or online search request has us sharing so much of ourselves to get started. A name, email, phone number, or address is all someone needs to unravel one’s entire personal life.
With so much of ourselves being disclosed on the internet, we’ve started to experience the consequences of sloppy data handling and nefarious parties. The finger is usually pointed at the usual suspects like hackers, phishing, poor passwords, and data breaches. Yet, we need to acknowledge the role businesses play to begin to understand how we can build better processes with privacy at their core and reassign control of data to the place it belongs: with individuals.
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