• Question: Is privacy on the internet something very personal to yourself? and why?

    Asked by anon-204925 to David on 5 Mar 2019.
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      David Chadwick answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Sorry but I dont really understand your question.
      Privacy is about the right to be left alone, and the right for information about you not to be revealed to anyone else without your permission.
      So in a way, privacy is personal to you, because it is about you and your life and information about you.
      Privacy is independent of the Internet. Privacy applies in the physical world just as much as it does in the virtual world.
      The reason why violation of privacy is more serious on the Internet than in the physical world, is that it is very easy to make personal information about you available to billions of people in seconds via the Internet, but this is not possible in the physical world.
      I hope this answers your question.

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