PRIVACY IS ATTAINABLE BUT...
As much as I'd appreciate my privacy, it's only a matter of time before I will realize that I'd not prefer that. Well, until we face some situations in life, we never get to see the good and bad of something or people. Being a subject of a country comes with some responsibility or allegiance. And one major responsibility is submission to those in leadership position. Too bad most leaders are becoming a bone in the throat but still we have little or no choice but to submit to their leadership.
Personally, I don't have any problem sharing my information with the government, the only place I get a problem with doing that is the long procedures that it takes most of the time. And meanwhile, it's not as if I can avoid not giving them those information. For one, the government having most of our personal information is something that is necessary for us to process so many things that would be of great benefits to us.
Traveling out of a country is only possible if you are legally recognized. No one wants to know if you fell from the ski or something, you have to have a nationality or something that you can be recognized with. Without anything to identify you as a citizen from one country or tribe, it is almost impossible for you to move to another country because no one would want to associate with you because they don't even know anything about you.
The government having our information doesn't stop us from living a private life. Funny enough, we are the ones who make ourselves more vulnerable with our personal data the more we sign up to different social media handles online so I really don't see any reason why anyone should complain about that because we have the choice to either accept or reject it. But then we do know that rejecting some of those access to our personal data means limited access to a lot of things on the internet too.
So after comparing our losses and our profits, we will only get to see more reasons why sharing those data with the internet is not really something that would take so much from us but it only helps to give us better experiences. Sharing our personal data with the internet becomes a threat when we don't follow some set out procedures to keep them safe.
But then, even after knowing that it is necessary sharing our personal data, it's good to know some of the downsides that it can attract to us. One of the major downsides I see in this is the fact that some people can easily steal your information and use it for fraudulent activities. Seeing how much people have gotten into trouble for something they didn't do, most times it's all because of the data we've shared with the government or with the internet.
Sadly, there is really no better way yet to keep most of our data more privately but then there are a few security measures we can take to keep our data more privately and that is having strong passwords for almost everything we do and also changing our passwords whenever we suspect something so we can easily save ourselves from falling victim to those scammers out there.
This is my little take on this particular topic by the Hivelearners community on "SHOULD YOUR DATA BE PRIVATE?" I do think for security reasons it should be private but then for accountability, it shouldn't be private because we never know what might happen to us. But we should also have it in mind that there are still some areas where we still get to have our privacy and I think that is just enough.
Privacy is attainable but will you go for it and miss out on all the other benefits or you will just try as much as possible to be alert?
hmm nice writeup, I would have say our data can be private let say we are in the olden days but right now even if we try to keep it private it will steal be leaked, we should just hope it won't fall on the wrong hands
Exactly! If it was back in the good old days we know how many horses they will have to crode on before they get any information on us 😁.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful contribution Val 🥰
This is a good take on a complex subject.
Personally I think it's about balance. We want to prevent bad actors accessing our data, but want the government to have enough information for us to live our lives within society.
Here in the UK, the problem is that the government just has far too much information about us. Everywhere we go, there are cameras with facial recognition software, our phones and cars are tracked, information on how we spend our money is passed by banks to the tax authorities, etc, etc. Being under constant surveillance to that degree is oppressive, especially when the government fails to use it to actually protect us from criminals !
Now that’s really too much and I guess that’s why I like the one here in my country, I think it’s just okay at least compared to yours.
Like you said what matters is the balance and I think that balance would be really hard to attain but let’s see how it goes 🫠.
Thank you so much for your comment 🥰
Hi, it is a reality worldwide, the government can ask for basic or common data, but there are some times that they exceed the limits and start to have more control over everything associated with us as people.
It was interesting and entertaining to read your post. Greetings.
Yeah, they over do it most of the time but somehow there is little or nothing that can be done and that’s why we just have to try as much as we can to keep a clean record.
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We can’t do without sharing our data. And I also believe a country should have the right to its citizens data. It’s for our own good.
Like you said most times we are the ones making ourselves vulnerable with some decisions we make. Safely and security is of topmost importance when it comes to data management
Yeah, of c it would have been nicer if the government hold a little information to avoid some harassment but then that is not even possible anymore with the way things are going.
Thank you so much for your contribution sir 🫠
It’s always a pleasure
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The ill with sharing our info publicly is due to the bad system we have in our state
In the Western world these things are very minimal such that one can comfortably share his data without any fear of any consequences.
The wearer word you speak of even holds so much information than you can imagine. But yes it’s safer with them than it is in Nigeria, hehe.
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Very true, it's not as if the government is capable on looking into everyone everyday, the data is just collected to make some activities easy and stress free both for us and for government and also for easy reference when the need arises.
That’s right, we can still lead a private life if that’s what we want. The only thing that would make us public is if we indulge in some dubious activities.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me ☺️
There is nothing with privacy again, our lifestyle can be private but data can never be, I concur with your writeup dear, in a standardized country the government has access to the data which helps to reduce the rate of crime in such a country, it helps in monitoring the security level of the country as well.
You’ve said it all, it’s even somehow trying to reduce the amount of information the government has on us I think we should be looking for a way for them to have it all as that would reduce the rate of crime because there will be no place to hide.
Thank you for your contribution dear 🥰
I will rather have my data secured and private. Growing up, I am a lover of privacy. I don't want my data to be tempered with
But that’s not even possible no matter how much you try, hehe.
Well, we learn every day so hopefully there will be a way out in the future
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me 🥰
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Yes, you are right. I agree with you. Our lives can be kept private, too. The conclusion is that while our data isn't private, we should stay at alert. This way, we'll know when something wrong is going on.
#dreemerforlife
That's right, staying alert is the only way we can save ourselves.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful contribution ma'am 🥰
You're welcome.
Hello there, Hope. This is a complex topic. First off,I really do not think that it is a big deal to share personal information with the government. Just like you said, we need it to process so many things. You know we provide our personal information to obtain a passport, right? Even the basic and simple things, for example, buying and registering a SIM, needs personal information.
It is all about finding balance. There are two sides to a coin- sharing personal information with the government can be bad or good. It all comes down to how we want things to be.
Thanks for sharing.
You've said it all Fave, thank you so much for your thoughtful contribution to what I've said.
Finding a balance is just the solution out.
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Very amazing 🤩 in as much as we want privacy but we should also give out some informations which are also necessary
#dreemerforlife#
That's right Sommy, thank you so much for agreeing with me 🥰
Very amazing 🤩
Welcome Cutie 🥰
For me i think is not bad for a country to know what it citizen is doing the have all the right to hat full access to our data.
Same here oo, it's mostly for our own benefits but it's sad that there will always be bad players.
Thank you so much for your beautiful contribution dear 🤗
You are welcome dear
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Our life can be private but keeping our data private will make us miss a whole lot
That’s just it 👌