The fact that the Facebook information scandal that has brought forward is monitoring all our steps online, the most popular social network in the world.
But not just this social media giant is always following your activities secretly.
More than a dozen companies are gathering information about their travels in the digital world, and there are dozens of companies or trackers monitored all the time.
Generally, the websites that are being used more frequently and the apps most commonly used are taking information about the user.
Many people are not aware of how they are being 'monitored' and who have the ability to see these information.
If you want to know who is following you on the Internet, then the answer for most users is that it can be anyone.
How our digital life is constantly monitored
There are many ways to track people's digital life trends.
Tools that can be intensively monitored in web browsing history are called 'Snooping Arsenal'.
Generally, this weapon collects information about the human activities. Such as we are going to go to any type of website or what kind of device we are using.
There are dozens of trackers on a website for different purposes. A tool might give the owner of the site an idea about the traffic volume or the number of users.
But most of the companies use these tools to know who their users, age, how long, what to read, interest in anything, etc.
In 2010, a study by the Wall Street Journal showed that there are an average of 64 trackers in the top 50 popular US websites.
Why are so long numbers? Because they can sell these information as merchandise, to advertisers, to different organizations, even to the government.
How to protect your privacy on the Internet
Another way to collect information from internet users is by scanning their inbox from free email service, such as Google's Gmail.
Popular Gmail for sending email. In June, Google company announced that they would stop such practices.
Most of the time, these tasks are not visible to us, but it is easy to find trackers, although they may not seem suspicious in the very beginning.
Have you ever seen 'Tweet this' or 'Follow me on Twitter' written on any page?
So it's a tracker.
Last year, Twitter authorities announced that they withdrew their support at the Do not Track Initiative.
That was an initiative to prevent users from following the online activities of the Internet.
Some tracker stays in the eighteen and always monitors activity on the Internet.
Different types of apps
At present, most of us people use mobile applications more.
Last year, a research publication by US-based academician Nurse Vallina Rodriguez and Srikant Sundarsan claimed that more than 7 out of 10 smartphone apps are giving private information to any third party.
They write, when people install a new Android or IOS-S app, they want to use the personal information of the customer. Apps also require some information in order to work properly. If you can not find location using GPS data, the location map can not work properly. But once an app gets permission to take that information, it will be able to share it with anyone who wants your information. Just as a third party can track where you are, how fast you are leaving, and what you are doing.
Terms of Thousand Words
There are various companies' privacy policy details online, written in thousands of words and different for different products.
Who wants to read them all?
In 2011, a British survey found that only 7% of the people who bought a product or service on the internet read online terms and conditions (different terms).
Mobile phones and tablets can continually follow our location and may also share it effectively.
The customer chose the map for example in their GPS data, closed the monitoring area regularly, and also locked the location options.
In fact, security experts often advise to keep them closed.
Even after all, your mobile phone will tell you where you are actually. That's what the research says.
A team of Princeton University examined and after locating GPS, GPS and WiFi, they were able to track their mobile phone by tracking a mobile phone.
Code library
The methods of collecting information are complicated. Many websites and mobile apps are created, by coordinating different programs made by other companies, which save time and money needed to create something new from zero.
They are stored in digital libraries. These programs are capable of collecting a lot of sensitive information.
Additionally, users can create detailed information-including digital profiles without any permission from them.
How? Digital libraries can provide these information to many clients.
This may mean that our location is the app, its creator