The Internet doesn't keep secrets - protect your privacy
Bank account numbers. Home addresses. Phone numbers. Most people probably wouldn't volunteer this information to a stranger, yet millions use the Internet every day to send and store sensitive information - not to mention the countless secrets and embarrassing stories people share online.
Everything communicated on the web has a long shelf life - a really, really long shelf life - making it virtually impossible to leave the past . . . in the past.
Once someone uses the Internet to send a message or document, they have little to no control over the data. They also risk losing even more control over data, according to Hank Levy, chair of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington.
