On the other hand, frankly, such preventive and good intentions have only a small conversion percentage because there isn’t that much going on in that area at the end of the day. Among others, such steps, including Facebook facial recognition, have been adopted to tackle terrorism, prevent self-harm, fight online bullying, and compromise other dark areas of the Internet activity. There are many open, officially agreed upon and silently cued policies that allow social media platforms and search engines to gather data. While websites do offer you an ‘accept/deny’ option of gathering your ‘cookies,’ there are thousands of data brokers that secretly and freely gather our browsing data to then sell it further. Media outlets, including Forbes, have written about the problem of data being gathered in so many ways that even the companies that collect them don’t count all the ways they do it. Companies and hackers casually spy while you are unaware. ![]() While you, as a consumer, may not pay attention to where you browse, others do. ![]() ![]() In the age of phishing, online scams and mandatory website cookie policies that inform consumers about the host gathering their browser data, browsing has rapidly become the object of hot debate in terms of privacy.
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