Understanding Web Privacy Basics
Introduction
The below summary is intended to give you a brief idea of the current challenges facing business and personal privacy.
In general, secure and encrypted systems such as Skytel Suisse have provided the most manageable solutions to the threats thus far.
Your Data
When you conduct business using the internet, your data is open for anyone or any entity to capture and review. Your emails, your web history, and any information you view or access is all available for review and analysis by the interceptor, without your knowledge or consent.
While there are many ways for your data to be captured and subsequently misused, the primary methods involve capturing your data while it is in-transit or in storage.
Data In-Transit
For each country, all web traffic must pass through several 'bottlenecks'. It is at these bottlenecks that hackers and other entities establish intercepts for your private data as it moves across the web. This data is then associated with the particular web user accessing it, and in many cases archived.
There are no firm legal guidelines in any industrialized nation that governs the interception of web-user data, and thus, all of this can be done without the consent of a court or legal system.
The privacy issues this raises are self-evident for commercial data or sensitive personal data.
Data In Storage
Free email providers like Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail use automated systems to scan user emails to target marketing and advertising as well as to better understand user behavior. They then sell that data in the open market.
For example, in 2012, twitter sold all the tweets of all its' users to a private company. [link]
Companies based in the United States such as facebook or any of the previously mentioned email providers routinely make user data available to the international governments without any legal process or user notification. Only a formal request from a government is normally required.
Even in cases where a legal process is used, courts in the US and the EU have consistently decided that data should be turned over to requesting authorities prior to any judgments of fault or guilt by users.
Solutions
It is within this context that Skytel Suisse exists to provide an assurance of privacy to those commercial and private entities that require it.
