Hello everyone, I've made an online presentation about privacy on the Net and why it matters (javascript & html) to educate my users. What do you think about it? Check it out: https://kvizy.com/ypm/
Thank you, gentleman, for your input. Based on responses from other sources this presentation does it's job- great success!
Short & Sweet! Love it! Thanks for sharing. I think it is very refreshing to present content in such a format.
Pretty good info. Privacy is becoming scarce these days. People will sell your name and info for $2 if they have to.
For me what's even more scary is that overwhelming majority of people are unaware of this issue. I think most of them would care, but they simply don't know. That's just wrong and we need to change it!
That seemed like an awful lot of work to get to a handful of bullet points beautifully presented but... Lets take these point by point Jo Bloggs wants a website to promote his plumbing business so he buys a domain and sets up a site on shared hosting. He gives his phone number and email address and gives some info about his services Are you saying he doesn't care about people's privacy? that people shouldn't visit his site? and extrapolate that out to that people shouldn't use his plumbing services? I wonder if the https warning needs a bit more detail How do I know if a site shares my browsing data? They might not today, but they might in the future - how do I judge the likelihood of that? How do I know if the social sharing buttons are via an app or via simple links? By the time I find out I've already gone to your site and therefore created browsing data. You also don't cover how to select and ISP who doesn't share customer data how to browse without going through hops that are being monitored how to identify the country that a site is hosted in and therefore identify what kind of monitoring might be going on. A site hosted in China will have different controls to a site hosted in Sealand
I guess that the biggest problem that I have with this simplistic presentation is that it is obviously targeted to the average consumer/user who knows little about the Internet or technology, in general. Not sure that many of these folks would have the knowledge to even understand some of the advice offered, never mind act on it as @sarahk points out. Beyond this, for the vast majority of Internet users, the only way that they can truly protect their privacy is to stay off the Internet entirely. Taking a few steps here and there may help, but it can also provide a false sense of security. Trying to protect your privacy on the Internet, for most people, is like trying to not get wet while in the shower. A shower is all about getting you wet. The Internet is all about sharing information (it's sole purpose, in fact.) The best thing that one can do is to expect that any information one is providing (be it your surfing history, personal info filled out on forms, etc.) will be shared with the rest of the world immediately after it is obtained or provided. Use the Internet with that perspective and it will be about as good as it gets for the average person with concerns about privacy.
Great insights, sarahk, thank you. After reading this now I'm thinking maybe I should create some series of online presentations and in each of them to cover only one topic in a bit more detail. By doing that I think I would be able to keep my presentations short enough, as no one likes the long ones. Hi, jrbiz, thanks for you input. In my view it's not the biggest problem, but the biggest advantage. Why? Because the wast majority of users lack of awareness and that is just wrong. I think everyone with deeper knowledge should raise this issue to his/her family & friends. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we should spread hysteria (like the big media did with Ebola for ex), but with better understanding quality disscutions will come and then the society will be able to overcome this issue (somehow). Thanks again for both of you!