Media Coverage
Year 2014
How private is your Facebook public profile?
The Ant Daily (31 Jan 2104) KUALA LUMPUR: Ali is a 22-year-old who has just completed his studies at Institut Pendidikan Guru, Kampus Tun Hussein Onn, Batu Pahat, Johor. Among the things he did to celebrate was to watch the movie Pacific Rim at a cinema in Batu Pahat with five college friends. He is a fan of fantasy comics and K-pop girl groups Wonder Girls, Secret, 4Minute, T-Ara and Girls' Generation, among others. Super Junior's Sorry Sorry was his introduction to the genre of K-pop. Rani, 41, from Klang was a Science stream student from Sekolah Tengku Ampuan Jemaah, Klang, Selangor, who finished school in 1989. She went on to read law at the Univer¬sity of London and after her graduation in 1995 worked in K.T. Tan & Co before joining her current workplace. She is married with two school-going children and likes to look at the bright side of life. The writer does not know any of these individuals (whose names have been changed to protect their privacy)-the only thing they have in common is that these bits of personal information are publicly available on Facebook. It seems the more connected we are to the internet, the more we take our privacy for granted. "The sophistication of technology and the convenience of mobile devices with Internet access availability have made online users neglect security aspects while they are accessing the Net and communicating with the rest of the world," CyberSecurity Malaysia chief executive officer Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab tells The Heat. "We feel safe and se¬cure as most of us surf the Net from the safety and comfort of our homes, so we tend to share a lot about ourselves online with pictures and com¬ments of what we are doing in our daily lives," he says. This is an extract of the article that first appeared in the Sept 21 issue of The Heat. |
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