Scandals like Facebook have helped many of us pay close attention we leave the trace online. Our personal information is very valuable, and there are people who are willing to pay for it.
A study by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) has tried to measure us amount of information that you leave us behind on the internet. All personal contact information, including financial information, is priced.
How much is your data?
As Eduard Blasi, a graduate professor who specializes in data protection at UOC, points out, We believe you visit for free websites are different when we use the internet, but nothing comes from the truth.
In the Internet ecosystem, if we don't pay it directly, we end up paying you indirectly with our data or metadata. The belief that everything is free is a utopia.
We should remember that there is no exact amount, but according to research, your financial data and all the information you leave on social networks for sale at the deep web about 870 euros.
Or there is General Protection of Data Protection of the European Union, which is intended to protect our data and which came into use in 2018, "in practice it is difficult to fully control the data, especially on free systems," Blasi said.
There are experts who say that if a big company like Facebook or Google takes over it does not pay its price, but with the number of users behind it. We must be aware of that our information is important and think twice before providing personal information online.
Source | Europa Press
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