As time goes by, I learned more and more about law. Sometimes, it makes me surprise of the new things I learned and a lot of questions came out from my mind. One of the things that makes me wonder and curious about is, what happen to our details given to a particular company or online communities after we send it? The best part is if they do not want the details anymore, will they just throw it? or SELL it? Are they REALLY THROW it until no one can found those details or just simply move it to bin???hurmmm...so much question marks,huh?:P
well, up till now, I still don't really know all the answers for those question. In the very basic stage, we only understand that our details will be used for a certain purposes and if they don't want our details anymore, they will throw it. However, those are the things that we can think of. We do not know what actually happen inside this situation. In law, we as a consumer has a full right for not to disclosed every single details that we do not want people to know it. As my own experience, I used to fill up forms by filling all those information required as I taught that I must give my details to them as required. Now I learned that we actually have a full right to protect our personal details by not giving them every details.
Therefore, in order to be safe and protected, we should limit our details to be disclose which might be misused by other party.
Here are some of the guidelines to protect your personal details when you are online:
1] Don't post information that you are not comfortable sharing with strangers.
2] Stay aware of how such information might be used by scammers of all kinds, both online and off, and avoid from sharing too much
3] Avoid passwords that could easily be guessed - your name, family's name, etc...
4] Don’t give out any more information than what is truly necessary
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