Information Security
It surprises me that a lot of people are giving away their information freely. No regard for their or others' security. There are a lot of applications now that could pose as a threat. Social networking sites are examples of such applications that could be harmful for you in the long run. How much are you worth? Do you know how much companies would pay for information? Even for just simple demographics, like gender, age, location and nationality? Stuff as simple as that, companies would pay millions just to have it. Imagine how much information we put on our profile sheets in social networks? We put in our schools, our hobbies, pretty much everything about ourselves. Such information can be used by companies to make marketing strategies; to check how much of the market they have penetrated; to see which demographic (such as social class, gender, school, age, etc) would be most likely to buy their products. Which demographics would they target their ads and their products to. I