With the continuous development of network technology, the leakage of user privacy occurs every day. While network big data brings convenience to people, it also brings various privacy problems.
Researchers majoring in computer science at Princeton University in the United States confirmed that Google cloud service will track and store users' location information. Google cloud server has found information disclosure of 1.2 billion people in unprotected databases, including social media accounts, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. In addition, Google cloud can collect personal information beyond its declared authority through code, such as user geographic location information, bound payment card information and so on.
Some analysts said that Google cloud's practice of collecting user data is obviously for commercial purposes. The market value of Apple Amazon, a well-known American company like Google, has broken trillion or is moving towards trillion. However, Google has only relied on advertising revenue. Now, in order to better serve advertisers, it is also trying to obtain user privacy, which has long deviated from its concept of not doing evil.
In fact, Google is not the only company accused of user data collection and disclosure. There are risks of disclosing user information in Amazon and Microsoft. The security of user data has been ignored by these platforms, which also makes people have to re-examine the cloud computing server it provides. The practice of the U.S. Electronic Privacy Information Center is obviously more radical. The organization accuses Google of defects in the relevant provisions of its so-called "cloud computing" service, has requested government regulators to investigate whether Google's information security work is sufficient, and also asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prohibit Google from providing cloud computing services, Until it formulates corresponding protective measures.
With the data leakage of these network platforms, everyone is worried: will the so-called big data eventually become a big leak? These platforms are seeking to expand their rule over the online world to the offline real world. FTC should really check it out. At the same time, improving users' awareness of privacy protection is also the top priority. I hope everyone can take action to protect their legitimate rights and interests.