As we use more information systems, computers and smartphones to interact with the rest of the world, shouldn't we have a say on how that informations is handled, stored and use by the companies we share our information with?
Every so often we hear about how a company gives uses, or shares, the information that was given to it by it's users in ways that weren't intended. In many occasions, it happens because there isn't a clear explanations on how the user information will be used. In other cases it happens because there is no easy way to opt out of uses that he doesn't want for his information.
At times is harder to cancel services, than it is to subscribe to them.
We, the users, should have a greater say on how our information is used and shared with third parties. There should be user friendly ways to make decisions on how we set our privacy levels on the places we put to our information, and if we want to it to be shared.
Our informations should be as private or public as we want it to be. Even, we should be able to choose which information we want to share, and with who we want it shared it with.
We should press to regain control over the information we share. It's our right to know how companies that request and have our personal information use it. Not only that, we should be able to have the list of the third parties they shared our information upon request.
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