Online Privacy

Running head: ONLINE PRIVACY
Online Privacy
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Introduction:
Privacy is very much important in current aspects as protects the users from various of
external thefts. Privacy not only protects the users from various of external issues but also
this provides respects for the individual users. Privacy is also another form of creating trust
among the peoples (Acquisti, Taylor and Wagman 2016). Within the context of the privacy
digital privacy is very much important factor as it helps to protect the users from various
types of thefts in the online platform.
In the context of online privacy, in this segment a brief description of the privacy will
be discussed and with that digital privacy will be also discussed. Also digital privacy in
Australia will be also described in this context. There are various type of issues within the
digital materials which will be discussed in this segment. Following that same level of
importance of the privacy will be also discussed in this section.
Privacy:
In this context the privacy actually refers to ability of an individual or the groups by
which they can seclude themselves or can hide information about themselves from the others
or through this ability they will be able to provide information to some specific persons.
Within this context digital privacy is actually privacy that is gained under digital
environment. The digital privacy is an important concept in daily activity of the humans as
the digital technologies has become an important part of the current society. In the case of
Australia there are several of legislative changes that are made within Australian privacy laws
with having the implication of online privacy. This online privacy related laws are regulated
through Australian Privacy Act 1988 which was enacted by the end of 2012 and become
effective in 2014.

Issues Regarding Digital Materials:
The main digital material which are under the concern is digital document. Digital
document has become very much popular in the current aspects as this documents are easy to
share and also storing of this type of documents is very much easier when compared with the
traditional type of documents (Benn, 2017). Due to this various of issue also occurs with this
digital type of materials. The main issues regarding these type of digital material are that
piracy of this type of materials has become a common thing in the current situations. Also, in
many cases theft cases of the digital materials been observed.
Ensuring Digital Privacy:
It is very much important to ensure the digital privacy. There are various of method
which can be utilised for ensuring the digital privacy for the peoples. In such of the case to
ensure that the digital privacy is maintained the peoples need to take some steps also. In this
factor the peoples must evade any type of tracking for ensuring the digital privacy in this
context. Also, the user must avoid the public internet services such as the hotspots to ensure
that their digital identity is protected. In this context the users also need to utilise some secure
type of passwords and for the online messaging purposes they need to use some platform
which will provide end to end encryptions to the users.
Digital Protection in Facebook, Google and iCloud:
For the online connectivity and operations Internet has played a crucial role. In the
context of digital environment Facebook, Google and iCloud has provided various of features
to the users (Cameron 2018). Google has provided various of services to its users which
includes single point password protection and two way authentication processes which has
created this type of platforms one of the most secure online platform. With that Facebook has
also provide various type of online security measures to the users of it. From very earlier