Go to Facebook ads and check out how easily you can specifically target an audience. Our lives creep ever closer to what is depicted in futuristic dystopian movies. In fact, what seems more unethical is that there is an entire industry ranging into the billions of dollars involving the sale and resale of our personal information – not to mention the wholesale spying of governments into every bit (literally) of our online data. Long gone are the days when the only way persons were identified was by their face, fingerprints, or handwriting.īy the way, for cynics who may scoff at the need for privacy as simply an excuse to do illegal activities, they should know that there is a community of law-abiding citizens who do prefer privacy. A quick check on Wikipedia gives you a long list of over 20 different pieces of data which can be (and are) used to identify, locate, profile and target you.Īlthough it’s of scary, I guess we all have become used to the threat of our privacy being compromised. Why learn to hide MAC address for your computer and protect your privacy? It is interesting to note how our Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Sensitive Personal Information (SPI) is increasingly under attack. Learn how to hide your MAC address (courtesy Christiaan Colen / CC BY-SA 2.0)
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