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PRINTF(PRIVACY == MYTH) IF(TRUE): HOW...?

The interesting story of Social Media! The Island of Privacy! Privacy is a myth! Data is the new oil! I am damn sure you have heard this before. A beautiful interesting simile popular in the morning! Consider the internet as the virtual world. Let social media be the continent. Unlike our world, this world consist of cities and Nations. Let's say each city is independent social media platform. The nation consists of different cities, this can be conveyed as the big Tech companies which on multiple social media platforms for example Facebook Inc. which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. So in short, World: internet, virtual world. Continents: Social media, web, dark web, Deep web. Nations: Big tech companies which own multiple social media platforms. Islands: independent social media platforms. The basic unit of this continent is a city/Island. What does city look like? It comprises of showrooms where everyone showcase themselves. (But this showroom do not sell anything!) Th...

FaceApp:A threat to privacy...Really...???

FaceApp a name which you might have heard a few days back or today as well... It's the app which increases your age and shows how you would look up when view would have grown up... Many memes appeared on the internet on this topic and as usual the discussion stopped. So why do you really need to bother about it? Recently some news media flash news with titles like “Faceapp is a privacy threat and it has acquired data of 120 million Indians” . If you say this is a threat to our privacy, then it might not be wrong to say that Facebook, Google and Snapchat are the king of this privacy theft industry. As a topic has come to mind let's explore it... You install many apps or you might have been using hundreds of apps on your smartphone. Have you ever wondered what the privacy terms and condition included? Or else without reading those long privacy statements you just accepted them and started enjoying the app. In fact, it might take days to understand th...