Privacy 

Today we want to maintain our privacy in the best manner. But we forget to take our precautions when surfing the internet and leave behind more digital track, enough track to reveal who we are. What causes this carelessness? 

When I log on the internet, first I check my e- post, and wthen I check my profile on Facebook . Popular forum requires registration, Otherwise you cannot send your message there. Then I open  my bank's website so I can pay my bills. Meanwhile, a tempting offer comes up during a commercial on one of the new webs I visit. So I decide to do some shopping online by using my credit card. Online shop offers to fill the questionnaire - no you do not order. Then I remember that I forgot to answer the e-mail I received last night, so I open my e-mail to take care of it. It's only been half an hour, but already I have left more of the digital tracks. Another clue to reveal who I am, my personality type and interests. And I'm not worried, because I do not give the consequences of leaving digital traces a thought. Information about Internet users is collected, processed, stored, and often no one is responsible for this is not the slightest responsibility. It Happens that the user does not even suspect that he composed a small electronic "file"

According to the advice of technology the amount of digital traces has increased because we communicate more and more over the web. An example is when I communicate via the web, and then our traces will be registrated and saved. This means that we can find out when the conversation took place and also the content of the conservation. 
Erichen write that cookies,these so called “information pods”, are necessary though they contains a lot of information about you and what you do on the internet, example your surf habits.

My  IP-adress will be registrated everywhere I go on the net. Hasselgård compare watching the Ip-address with watching telephone calls, this contains watching your intimate confidences. Though the IP-address is anonymous and can only be accessible for the police with a approval from a tribunal, it’s possible to find out more about the address according to
Erichen. When you send an e-mail, you’ve already disclosed your IP-address. The address can be disclosed either caused by bad safety on your computer or that the computer is provoked to give away its IP-address when you go online with the computer. If you have the IP-address, you can find out where is located. And according to  Erichen there are programs that can scan any computer that are online with an IP-address and then find out a lot about a person. 

To me it seems that IP addresses are no longer anonymous. If I was surfing the net just half an hour, and already leaving more digital traces. If it is so easy to find out about someone's personal life only with the digital traces we leave behind us, why are we not more careful when we surf and communicate online?

The Norwegian supervision of data’s has implanted a survey on people’s attitude to digital traces. The survey shows that people are less worried by abuse over their personal information that they leave surfing on the web. The reason that I don’t worry about the traces I leave behind, due to my ignorance. And that’s the reason why we don’t worry, our knowledge about digital traces are minimal. According to the technology advice, people don’t know the consequences this has for they own private information.
My point is that when it comes to laws and rules regarding personal information we have strong social and ethical norms, but not when it comes to the way we act on the web. We keep our information about ourselves close to our chest and we don’t sneak in other people’s personal information. 

In Article 8 of the European Convention on Human, it says: Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
It seems that this rule has not received proper footing when it comes to the life we live on the internet. According to Bing, the norms and rules when it comes to digital traces don’t exist because this is new for us. It has been a explosive technologic development, and the digital traces are useful. But since we don’t have developed attitudes to these traces, we don’t have ethical norms on this field. We cross borders because we easily have access on personal information. Weather this due to ignorance to the digital traces, curiosity or just simple cheekiness I think we can avoid thus if we developed ethical norms when it comes to the digital traces.

This video about Andy made me realize that there is endless information about me in the digital dossier, I can say that I have a private life? See it if you think you have a private life.