Technologies have become a crucial part of our day-to-day lives. As the world relies upon the internet, with each day passing, reliability increases, creating a need to check fairness in the competition. An urge to tighten the scrutiny over the tech giants has been felt and talked about by many. This world is an expensive place for people like us to survive. Imagine the pressure on tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google. Like every government needs to be checked for the basic principle of balance of powers, so do these companies where the market is on the rise, and for them, anything and everything is at risk, including their image, their investment and more.

The internet needs to be a safe place for one and all and to ensure that the need for anti-competitive conduct has been raised, where everybody is out there to sell their product as if their application is the best shot we have got. All these successful companies have one thing in common: the support of the internet, without which these companies would’ve been nothing.
The government has raised concerns about the increasing monopoly of the digital markets, and the only means to keep these companies under control and on the path to righteousness is by curbing their strength and excess powers.

A recent egalitarian retaliation took place against the potential of these data monopolies; new worries over disturbing content online or behaviour, cyber-related crimes, and giving political misinformation to the public are just a few of the troubles. Have you ever thought that the only market to survive would be the online market, which sells everything from groceries to pets?

The increasing online family is scary because all your data is out somewhere; everything you type will remain on the internet even after you erase it. Facebook had undergone a similar scandal where the company had revealed the protected data of 87 million users to a political consulting firm, further leading to speculations on the Trump campaign.

Right folks, It’s 2019. Here are the social media choices we are left with: Facebook, where your identity and data are stolen. Twitter is where your profile is abused and disgraced. Snapchat is where your profile has funny bunny ears, and life is entirely of filters. People are bots. News is bought, and the only organic thing left is avocados. If this doesn’t awaken the law-abiding citizen within you, nothing will. Author: Rishika Chhabra

Apple, beset by falling iPhone sales, declared coming changes to its phone and computer software that intend to highlight its increasing emphasis on digital services and to overlook further its customers’ privacy visions previewed during a conference in California, including a new feature that will let people log into apps and other benefits with an Apple ID instead of relying on similar sign-in options from Facebook and Google, the two companies that mine data to sell advertising.

Apple said it wouldn’t collect tracking information about users from that service. As a part of the feature, it will let users mark their valid email ID when signing into related applications and services.

Although still prevalent, the iPhone is no longer reliably driving Apple’s profits the way it has for the past decade. Sales have fallen sharply for the past two quarters and could suffer another blow if China’s government targets the iPhone in retaliation for the trade war being waged by another potential problem looms for Apple.

iPhone is still Apple’s marquee attraction. The next version of its iPhone’s operating software is iOS i3, which offers p, which offers “dark mode” for the screen, a feature already available on Macs. Apple executives also claimed that iOS 13 would be faster and feature a new version of the Face ID system that will unlock your phone 30 per cent faster. When the next version of the iPhone software comes out this fall, Apple is also promising to give people the option of limiting the time apps can follow their locations and prevent tracking through Bluetooth and WiFi signals.

Apple is expected to provide a flash at a separate store for the Apple watches to lessen the dependence on the phone. It is often likely to show updates like the applications for maps, books, messaging, etc.

More features are also expected for Apple’s toolkit to create augmented and project digital fabrications into the real world.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been promoting the promise of augmented reality but hasn’t publicly confirmed that Apple is working on an AR headset. Author: Rishika Chhabra

Commercial Use of Personal Information

Alarming modern Internet scams have triggered users to find and remove their personal information from the Internet. Most websites do contain login data, sometimes credit card information, social security details, or health records, mostly taken when a user interacts.

In a well-connected world, companies have all the information about users, their location, social media connections, online purchases, browsing history, content published by them, personal habits, and much more. One way is that users are disclosing information from their smartphones, and on the other way, they are worried and want to clean all their stuff from the Internet.

Online companies trade personal information to make profits. They claim that the user has authorized the same by clicking on the ‘I Agree’ button on the user agreement. Very few people carefully read the contract before clicking; most want to approach their intentions to work. Mostly, people believe that what harm would be done to companies if that is not financial information. Hence, freely share the news on social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Linkedin. But now, people have found that companies use this information by targeting them with ads. Some may like those ads, but they aren’t enjoyable for most!

The companies have many resources to gather information like IoTs, gazettes, ISPs, websites, social media, and online forms; even the government publicizes certain information. People want vigilance on personal information to stop data from being used commercially.

How do you remove available personal information?

• Deleting Information from Social Media Platforms: Check the information you share on your profile’s About page. Check privacy settings and hide the profile information you don’t want to disclose.
• Contact Publisher: Land laws like the Right to Privacy provide rules and regulations that may force the publishers to take down the content. Web hosting providers may also be contacted and explain how disclosing your personal information violates laws; you can also go to court to obtain an injunction.
• Contact Search Engines: Google and Bing provide the form to remove offending content from their search results

Use of Malicious Software

Scammers in Today’s world are evolving along with technology at an alarming rate. Meddling with your personal information through laptops and computers can be financially and mentally devastating. Downloading music, movies, and games can be enjoyable. Still, one should be aware of illegal downloads resulting in severe computer viruses and expenses you might not want to anticipate. Some downloads containing viruses can wipe out your files, and you might download dialer programs without realizing it, which enables hackers to hijack your modem and connect to unknown numbers that end up in expensive phone charges.

A good anti-virus software program can help prevent this negligence and protect your computer from threats. Ensure everyone in your household or business checks with you before downloading programs. One mustn’t download files from a site which is not trusted. Being cautious about emails offering information or entertainment services is vital and ensures you remain safe from unwanted suffering. Supervision over children when they’re surfing the Internet is critical. Lured by promises of fun, children may ignore the user agreement or other warnings. Family members worried about children surfing the Internet should take advantage of the ability to block Websites they do not want visitors to.

It is essential to be safe and informed while accessing the Internet. One must watch out for phishing emails that pretend to be someone they are not and retain your personal information the only misuse. Fraudsters use links to lure people to Websites that look just like the actual sites of the company they are impersonating. If you follow the instructions and enter your personal information, you’ll deliver it directly to identity thieves. To check whether the message is from the company or agency, call it now or go to its Web site.

Only open email attachments if you expect them and know what they contain. Even if the messages look like they came from people you know, they could be from scammers and include programs that will steal your personal information, so you should be very sharp and attentive towards the website you are logging into and sharing your details because you never know what might harm your rights.