3 things you need to know about your Personal Data
The world is continuously moving towards the personalization nearly in every field. Telecommunication, IT and even the sectors of nutrition and health care are personalized.
3 things you need to know about your Personal Data
By
Sana Hassan
The world is continuously moving towards the personalization nearly in every field. Telecommunication, IT and even the sectors of nutrition and health care are personalized. Changes are being made to fit and vary from person to person. Each person is unique in its taste, preferences, and style. One thing can’t be applied to everyone. Same goes with the personal data. While some the data is strictly rigid for a person it is different for another. Follow are some of the things you never thought about your personal data.
1. Your personal data for advertising
In the wider definition of the data all the queries, search histories, posts, sharing, tweets, videos that are watched is regarded as the personal data. This data of yours is constantly being utilized and analyzed to fit your requirement. The ads exactly for what you are looking for. The customized search suggestion. In fact, everything is analyzed ad molded to your need. Ever had a Déjà vu moment where you are looking for something and you put it in the search bar and you forgot about it. A few hours later you see ads pop up on the site you are currently viewing answering your query. That is exactly the utilization of data for advertisement.
The possibilities are endless for advertising unless until you get rid of your phone.
2. An immense amount of data is created each day
With the development of cloud storages and remote servers, a large amount of data is made and stored each day. The social media site, info-sites, website are being added to the data stream each day. Same goes with the personal data. When we create a new email account the data is made. When we store data in the account or its cloud the data is added to the stream. The stats say that around 90% of the data available today has been created in the past three years. This gives a lot of opportunities for the analysis and narrowing down the required data.
3. Technology is moving towards electronic storages
The advancement has resulted in the availability of the billions of bytes of data in the palm-sized drives. The photo albums are replaced by albums inside the computers. Books are replaced by electronic books. All of this is adding to the stream of the data. The ways of storage are also changing. The trends of data entry are made into sophisticated ones. The addition is now possible by the voice commands. Chatbots are one example of it.