Digital Data Privacy

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DIGITAL DATA PRIVACY
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Introduction
Digital privacy can be considered as the security as well as privacy level of personal
information that is published through the internet in the digital platforms. Digital privacy is
usually a broad term which refers to numerous factors, technologies and techniques that are used
for the purpose of protecting sensitive as well as private data, preferences and communication
(Zhang, 2018). Digital privacy as well as anonymity is usually paramount of users, especially
when e-commerce continues to get traction. Violation of privacy as well as risk to threats is
various standard considerations for any sort of website that is under the process of development
(De Hert, Papakonstantinou & Malgieri, 2018). Digital privacy is a particular cause for concern
for a particular user who is planning to carry out an online purchase, in this process the
password of a user might get compromised, in order to prevent these issues, digital privacy is
vital.
Discussion
Privacy can be considered as a mechanism that is used by users for the purpose of
securing their data; these data can be of any type, size and might belong to any field. Privacy of
data is of utmost important for a particular user. The data that are usually protected by people
include organizational details, personal details, payment details or details regarding transactions
with people and many more (Nieto, Rios & Lopez, 2018). Digital privacy can be defined as the
right to privacy of users of the digital media. The digital privacy can also be referred to
protection of a particular individual’s information which is used or created at the time of using
the internet, a personal device of a computer. The concept of digital privacy had been very

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critical in Australia (Armando, Bezzi & Metoui, 2019). According to various revelations started
to unfold regarding the misuse of personal data by the Cambridge Analytica, numerous
Australians has only learnt the fact that various Australian politicians had provided themselves a
free service to bypass the privacy laws (Esposito, De Santis & Tortora, 2018). Australian laws
for data privacy have been weak as compared to the ones in the United States, the European
Union and the United Kingdom.
Issues of the concern that are usually raised in the field of digital materials include the
risk of keeping their data. Every file that is digital in nature is usually formed of a serous of ones
and zeros, they also known as bits (Wadmann & Hoeyer, 2018). These streams are to be
captured as well as retained after a certain period of time. The capturing as well as retaining
process ensures the fact that these data are stored without any loss along with ensuring the
survival of the digital materials. These materials face numerous threats due to their presence in
the digital environment (Mayer‐Schönberger & Ingelsson, 2018). In some cases, the removable
data might be lest on a particular shelf and sometimes might also be forgotten, the files that are
stored might also be left without any owner or a particular third party provider of the cloud
storage.
Digital privacy of the data that belongs to a user must be considered to be of utmost
importance because every user has numerous things that are completely confidential and are not
supposed to be shared with anyone (Marelli & Testa, 2018). Some more data that could be
provided as proofs on the importance of digital privacy include the results that have been
retrieved from the studies that have been carried out by various researched, they include, around
41% of experienced fraudulent credit and debit card charges occur, around 35% of people had
resulted in compromising their data (Hallman, Li & Chang, 2018). Besides this around 16% of