Protecting Privacy information of users accessing the web page online has always been a troublesome task for most of the browsers be it Firefox Mozilla, Chrome or IE. Actually there are many online advertisers who gather your surfing or your habits of using internet to display user specific ads on the Web Pages. IE builder Microsoft has been trying to reduce this by giving more privacy control to its users on IE and has been constantly updating its policies. Recent surveys have revealed increased practices of online privacy hacks, after going through these surveys many governments have taken proactive approach to save the privacy of online users and showed interest hat users online should be given full control of their data stored online so that it could not be harnessed by the hackers.
Measures to Protect Privacy information
In recent days many surveys conducted by both governmental and non governmental organizations have shown an increase in online privacy hack. The thing which can be done is by the respective governments to regulate and give full control to private data of the users stored online or while they are exposing these data during their online purchases.
Another step can be that the browser developers like Google, Firefox and Microsoft should take proactive measures to check for any privacy hack of the users while surfing on their browser. Users should be given or should be warned for before sharing their private data online or some short of thing must be developed to make these browsers smart enough to block such privacy hackers.
Another step can be that a regulation should be set up for the online advertisers about their online data collecting habits so that private data of the users could be made safe. But this step is a bit confusing as many of these advertisers say that they are providing ads to specific consumers without forcing the consumers to pay for the advertisements. Many online stores advertise their product to specific consumers by their advertisers without levying any extra burden on the consumers. So this aspect is a matter of good discussion before it could be applied.
Although above are the steps which when taken could curb the online advertisers from attacking the users privacy data. But in spite of knowing that about 80% of the advertisers online try to collect the usage habits of the users online, a lot many things have to be done in order to protect the private data of the user and make the privacy policy full proof.
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