Pay Attention To Your Online Privacy

Data brokers hack personal information for activities like marketing and advertising purposes. There’s the danger of intrusion of the personal space to extract information to conduct activities such as online theft (robbing of one’s money) or for making unsolicited business request and transactions.

- Bijai K Jayrajan

A large hue and cry was raised when the Cambridge Analytica scandal became the headlines of all the major publications across the world. The biggest data misuse scandal of all times also included the name of the social media giant Facebook which was found guilty of leaking personal information of its users without their consent for political advertising purposes.

Offended with such a devastating breach, a large number of Facebook users did not waste a second to remove their presence from the platform. This not only resulted in its stocks tumbling down in the market but also the world-wide users losing trust in it.