Hive Tracks Reflection

I enjoyed the conversations that were sparked from reviewing the certain privacy aspects of your website, and haven’t previously considered the fact that sites can and do store data from users that no longer exist. In addition to this, I wasn’t aware as to how easy it is to find people’s locations online, associated with tons of personal information tied to that location. Albeit what you showed were only for bee keepers, it was still a revelation to me to see how easy it would be to theoretically say, find where my competition stores their hives and either steal or destroy them.

You also brought up in class how any data sent to a third party service doesn’t have to follow the same privacy policies that the original collector has. This can clearly lead to some very shady practices, where potentially a person could own multiple companies that they send data to with different privacy policies to skirt around the rules. This of course is just in theory, as I’m not sure on the exact laws concerning this, but as long as the only tie between the two companies is that they share the same owner, I believe they’d be able to do this.