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Privacy & Keeping track?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u2018Don\u2019t talk to strangers\u2019, \u2018Don\u2019t share your PIN\u2019, \u2018Always keep your passwords secret\u2019<\/p>\n

Regardless of who we are and what we do, protecting our personal information is often at the forefront of our minds.<\/p>\n

However, as we continue to invite the latest advancements of technology into our lives, we perhaps forget that what may make our lives easier may also compromise our privacy.\u00a0 Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many other social media tools can \u2018leak\u2019 our private lives to greater and lesser degrees. This could be your holiday photos, your personal thoughts on current affairs, or even posting videos of your ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. We can communicate widely with the simple click of a button.<\/p>\n

We want an easier life and to take advantage of the available technology and, at the same time, to vigilantly maintain our privacy. However, how many of your Facebook friends or Twitter followers do you actually know or have even met? Is your account properly protected from anyone potentially seeing your posts? Have a look. It might surprise you.<\/p>\n

With our willingness to \u2018share\u2019, someone can easily undertake a \u2018lifestyle\u2019 survey on you, under the banner of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering. Can we truly complain about intrusion to our privacy, when we\u2019re not perhaps hiding it as well as we could?<\/p>\n

What is tracking?<\/h6>\n

This leads to the debate and discussion of the privacy of \u2018tracking\u2019. This technology has been around for many years and where it was originally extremely bulky and expensive, most smart phones today come with some variation of \u2018findmyphone\u2019 already loaded, and for free.<\/p>\n

There are many elements within our day-to-day technology use that \u2018leak\u2019 information on our whereabouts, which we may often not even be aware of. So why is \u2018conscious\u2019 tracking important and how can we retain privacy from those we wish not to know our whereabouts?<\/p>\n

About 20 years ago, pre-smartphone, tracking required the individual to carry a separate device. Those companies that \u2018imposed\u2019 these trackers on their executives would often meet considerable resistance. Yes, the executive knew that it was for their personal safety, but it was something else they had to pack and administrate, making sure it was plugged in overnight. As a result, many of these devices would go \u2018missing\u2019 or lost, or be left in the hotel, thrown out of a window, etc. The technology then evolved to mobile phone applications. The first versions of these were as much of a problem. Furious executives having their Blackberries rinsed of battery power within only a few hours was a common complaint. The other main issue was their company being able to track them whenever they wanted. \u2018No thank you\u2019 was the frequent response. \u2018Not when I\u2019m at home, with my lover, sneaking off to the golf course\u2019. So the companies had to introduce the \u2018switch-on\/switch-off\u2019 option.<\/p>\n

You can imagine what happened. Tracking became a \u2018black or white\u2019 option. Either the company would demand the executive had a \u2018live\u2019 tracker or they couldn\u2019t travel. Or they couldn\u2019t enforce a tracker at all.<\/p>\n

With current technology,\u00a0 there are trackers that can remotely switch on the phone\u2019s microphone and camera. How many executives are aware their companies can do this? So, we\u2019re back to the privacy issue and how much we\u2019re willing to relinquish.<\/p>\n

There is still a debate to be had to consider what is realistic in our expectations and demands for privacy, when we\u2019re all potentially leaking like sieves anyway?<\/p>\n

Will Geddes<\/p>\n

MD at ICP Group & TacticsOn Limited<\/p>\n

www.tacticson.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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