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Why Do Teenagers Use Personal Privacy?

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Since technology has developed faster and faster these years, there are lots of data transfer though Internet. Not only information that we need or news of the city, but also our personal data including our email address, phone number or even credit card number. For this generation, who grew up with social networking websites and apps, companies usually use customers ' personal data for advertising or analytics. Some of the teenagers are even willing to share all information about themselves. In view of this, cultural analysts have argued that privacy is less importance to them. To my opinion, this is true.

In the past when internet is not so popular, people can only contact others through telephone. When they wanted to apply for something, …show more content…

People who access the Internet have become routine functions — sending email, writing blogs, and posting photos and information about themselves on social networking sites. They do not realize how much of their personal privacy, their identities are putting at risk.
These sites usually claim that they are collecting customers ' information for registration use. However, according to a research of Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data posted in September, 67% of investigated websites or apps would collect private personal data of teenagers including name, birthday, contact number, address and photos. More than half of them would even shared these data with third parties. Besides, the research found that around 58% of websites or apps will redirect teenagers to another page so as to require them to disclose their own personal information. Among all these websites, only a few of them would provide sufficient protection like warning messages to prevent teenagers overuse or disclose too much of their personal information. (On.cc, 2015) To the social media, users ' information may be just a product that they can get profit

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