Digital Privacy and Security

Digital Privacy and Security

Privacy is a simple word to hear and to define the same in one virtual understanding. In the Philippines no less than its constitution ordained and pronounced the protection to privacy viz security of every person. And reading the topic in the 1987 Philippine Constitution, it can be gleaned that persons protected therewith applies to all persons, whether accused of a crime or not.

The right of the people to secure in their persons, that to say the least even of P-Noy, the President of the Philippines wants to enter your house and it happens you refuses, there and then, P-Noy can’t force nor endowed with legal basis to go into your abode.

Additionally, not only your houses are thus protected but to include papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. All of these long been reflected and among the laws and statutes displayed in every bookstores shelves. For an advice, every person/person including an alien tourist should also try to know thy rights while living and sojourning in the archipelagic place otherwise known as Philippines. [If ever you wish to get hold of this law just log in www.supremecourt.gov.ph]

Accompanying statement or phrase embodied in the aforesaid constitution is the same should not be violated in whatever nature and for any purpose. By and large, all things/stuffs mentioned above are fact indicating that privacy and security have place in the heart of every governmental organ of the state.

So now how secured are we if we talk and seemingly thresh out about Digital Privacy and Security? Maybe one can stop; look and listen thereby ponder a moment to consider the query, and I hope so it has relevance and materiality in view of those who always visit and thus live in the digital or virtual world.

Digital Privacy and Security so are complicated concern to deal with in the domain of digital or virtual world otherwise fondly called as Electronic Highway. Even books/ebooks and resources abound thereat whether in physical library or in a virtual one, eloquently and in detail tapped and discussed personal privacy and security in the age of the Internet. However, in its finale, privacy and security is personal, and the comprehensive answer in the above-cited query depends largely on YOU, the person involved.

Nevertheless, it is crystal clear that the virtual concept of privacy and security, the threats to it, and the means to make it, are immensely changing as a resultant quest of man vis-à-vis computer based-lives. One may surely asked why is this so/or how it works in our everyday lives?

We should rehearsed, shall we say thirty years back or in the Philippines in just only twenty (20) years, therein privacy and security used to be achieved thru the pure friction of everyday life. That is to show, the time, the distance, and the lack or inaccessibility of records. Information didn’t travel so well, and most the populace who wanted to escape their personal past could simply move to a new area without a trace sometimes. That is to say then, greater part of activities or things people did then produced no trace or paper trail and records, and if ever there were records existed on paper, the same was hard to find, insurmountable face to duplicate, moreover, the same was then subject to being place in the dash-bin of nowhere, faded or if not beyond the commerce of man as my former professor fondly mentioned the same.        

In today’s contemporary realities viz digital era, the picture has change relative to privacy and security. One can escape thru the net, however, in the same time your actions and words can easily catch up with you, in the same breath thru the Net. And to say the least, it’s not exclusively the Net yet it’s the electronic toll roads--- how it works: exactly one knew when you leaved on the conference/meeting/venue; know what hotel you went to--thru your credit card transactions; thru vendor databases on what book you bought, mobile phone records--whom you called, and there are plenty of things or shall we called it working module just to track you in. Even at work, your arrival and departure time now is simply recorded.

For now and years to come, data collection made easy in every angle of living and scary it may seem since it has the capability to combine. And I may tender my sense of thought that someday someone might put the right or wrong collated information together to seek out information or in similar passion of knowing more than you want them to know.

And so we may know surely on what will be then the best solution via-a-vis digital privacy and security in the Philippines digital or virtual world residents or sojourners? Does it need a correlative legislation in addressing the same? Or some sort of virtual knowledge on Digital Privacy and Security?

Note Well: If ever you wish to place your relative advice, please don’t hesitate to tender your comment in whatever tune and form.

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