Grace's blog

It has been some time since I have traveled solo. Now tha I am back from an 18 day adventure in Peru and Bolivia, I have not only gained new experiences but I have also met new acquaintances. I have forgotten that one of the best things about traveling is meeting fellow travelers. It is funny how linear our lives can seem to be. We spend most of our time in our own path focusing on where we want to go. However, if we take the time to raise our heads from out of our personal burrows we will discover that the path we are in isn't really a straight one. It is more like an intricate web.

What comes to mind when asked which famous explorers you know? Magellan? Columbus? Lewis and Clark?  Notice anything similar? Yes, they are all men.  I actually asked myself the same question a few nights ago and came up with the same answers. It really bothered me that I came up with a blank when I tried to think about female explorers. As a female who happens to also love travel and adventure, I should have known better.

So I did a quick research on famous female explorers and was glad to see there were a few out there. There were three that really stood out for me.

On the last article, we examined which Internet activities reveal your personal information and how others get information about your online activities. For Part 3, we will be discussing ways on how to protect yourself in a public Internet environment.

As one blogger said: “This privacy debate is about a particular type of privacy – one that focuses on individuals’ control of information about themselves. It’s what I call “Public Privacy.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez captured the spectrum of our personal lives and Public Privacy’s place in them when he said, “Everyone has three lives. A public life, a private life and a secret life.” Public Privacy allows for the existence of all three of these lives. Without it, we are left with the binary choice of absolute publicity or absolute secrecy. Public Privacy is the connective tissue between our public and secret lives. It allows us to make more appropriate decisions about the use of our data based on given circumstances.”

On the last article, we discussed what online privacy is. Now we will examine what Internet activities reveal your personal information and how others get information about your online activities.

So what does the Internet reveal about you?

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg said that privacy was no longer a social norm, the online world has been filled with discussion and debate about this most controversial topic. I believe that Zuckerberg’s statement has really forced netizens to take a closer examination on how much information and data is being collected and revealed about them online…with or without their knowledge. From the looks of it, a lot of them are becoming more proactive and vigilant.