Public Data and Internet

On the topic of making data more public is interesting because there seems to be a big opposition to having what seems as private considered data in public factors to become more public oriented. In the article, “Is Making Public Data “More Public” a Privacy Violation?” , there are numerous examples being given about the problem with making more data than it already is. A quote speaking about this is “ The current situation is bad for everyone: data trustees and data analysts have no clear guidelines in place, and users/consumers are in a position of constantly having to fight back against a loss of privacy. We need to figure out some ground rules to decide what uses of public data on the web are acceptable.” 

The Internet works in many sufficient ways for people to use and take advantage of. There are both positives and negatives in which people could use the Internet to find and reconnect, gain knowledge, and other things while in the negative aspect there is cyberbullying the spread of fake information, and much more as well. It’s successful because almost everyone in the world uses the large data space to retain and discover information from any kind of use they specifically may need it for.

Leave a Reply