Do Not Allow Them Misusing Your Personal Data

Before the world wide web was born on earth, we knew how to record all numbers identify yourself on a little notebook either your ID, passport number, the information you searched from the library, everyone you contacted with. They were all your little secret.

Then the internet was happening, and it was a great invention that made our lives so much easier. It spares your time and your brain until we found there is a price to pay.

It was just a few years back that we had discovered that when we were using services of businesses while we thought that their online services giving us such convenient, actually they have held our data, they recorded our journey on the internet, they went through our personal interests by analysing our habit through every click. It appeared to us that the advertisers happened to offer us what we just looking for almost immediately.

We don’t need to live in concern over how they use our data since there are some easy things we can do to ease the concerns.

• Change your privacy settings: This is a very first step you should do starting from your social media accounts either Facebook, Instagram etc. to the shopping sites. What you have to do is a cruise through the settings of your privacy, security and also profile pages setting, change everything that stops your info sharing or being used by whoever. There is a function that allows you to check how public or specific person could see your information, check it out.
• Read before signing: When it comes to discount offered, a lot of people think this is a way of a smart shopper. Let’s think twice before agreeing in giving them your information. All shopping stores are now offered you discounts in an exchange with being their member, which means that you have to provide them with your data from usual demographic to personal data like your ID. As for the lengthy text of the terms of the agreement, you have to accept that before accessing their a few bucks discounts, is that a few bucks saving worth your data?
• Direct Log-in and log-out: It is convenient for people to use the search engine like Google or click on the link providing on Facebook to go to the websites. You have to bear in mind that by doing so you are creating online links allowing them to share data. Better make your efforts for some seconds to log-in direct to the site you want.
• Complain, complain and complain: One problem of Thai people is that they are too easygoing and afraid of confronting with the firm even they find something went wrong. They instead just say, ‘take it easy, let it be’. You know what, if you see the companies misused your data, and you let it go without sending them complaint nor notice, you just give them consent for abusing your data. So next time they can use this fact against you.

Let’s protect your personal data as much as possible. If you can’t avoid it, for example, the data requested for the online registration process, make sure you provide them only necessary ones and do not forget to note that you never allow them to share your data on any purpose except the main registration purpose.