How to protect Personal Data in our Citizen Life ?

Computer and Digital Life evolved a lot with time. With invention of Internet and Social Network our relationship by Internet took more and more place in our Daily Life.

Using Social Network between us changed more and more our habits and way to behave also.

Around 2010 the Open Source Community, Linux Community start to alert people regarding Danger of Private Data collection from “GAFA” that is contraction of major IT Companies Named “Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple“.

Around 2015 European Union Commission bring a new Law Policy named “GDPR” “RGPD in French” Meaning “General Data Privacy Regulation” (Policy)

This policy Helped us a lot to remind the importance of the “Data Privacy“. The concept took time to be understood cause it was something we were all doing without realising it.

We understood the fact if a company collect private information in our profile we have the right to choose what we want to share and this is a Security Concept that took more and more importance in Information Technologies.

Data Privacy and Personal information are very important for everyone. It’s Part of our Identity.

Protecting our Identity is in fact as protecting ourself from others, It help to realise there is sort of Mental or Virtual Barrier, That might sound something blocking us but by highlighting it, permit us to realise it help more than block finally.

In French we say sometimes “Reculer pour mieux sauter” I would translate by an expression as “Taking few step back to be able to Jump Better“… in English this expression is not exactly the same we can say “To put off, the inevitable“.

(As other link on other page can remind ourself) We have to relearn how to share our own private information but also others informations, in respect of our own self and other self.

The return of our inner-self help us also to have “A better” Together

“The GAFA” collecting our information bring voluntarily/Involuntary our attention in the work of IT Scientist, who have to requestion ourselves, themselves to Re-think “How we are doing?“, “What do we do?“.

Open Source Community that is generally leading Ethics in Computer Science bring attention on the way we use our personal data, in context of “I.T“, as literal sense “Information Technology“.

“Information Technology“, Help us to “Share information” helping to be more careful on what information we are sharing.

Remembering also: If on day some information get publish about yourself, creating problem regarding dignity, Fake information, or/and without any consent.

We say sometimes “An other world is possible” meaning also nothing is definitive :

We all have our right recognise on this and ability to act, if some information have been stolen, high-jack, without any consent. We have the right to Retrieve, Remove information in respect of Justice and Human Right.

Everything can be verify and investigate. All we have to do is contacting the Support of any Public Instance related to the country or place we found this private information. You can also find help by contacting Police, Citizen Advice Website, Which Legal Advice, any Law firm from “Law Society” website.

It’s might sounds difficult to act sometimes, we might feel completely desperate, but any small step matter, it is your personal information, the importance to act is very important and matter. If you protect your personal information, you also indirectly protect others.

Your personal informations are “Valuable“. You are in your right to act as Citizen in respect of Human Right and Dignity.