How Much is Your Information Worth?

Since many years ago businesses and 3^rd parties understand the value of the information that is about YOU!.

How much does it cost to have you ever wondered? Or how much does it cost for your information to get stolen?, nowadays it grows more and more value behind the information of people but not as it traditionally have been though about such as telephone numbers or a credit card. But now the most value comes from stealing facebook information, skype accounts, passwords and even paypal.

Why does this value come from so many strange places and not anymore from the more personal information?, it is because of the amount of information that comes with it. That is because having a facebook password can give a company/hacker access to a lot more information than just knowing your profile and your pictures. The amount of connectivity that you have with facebook and other services is massive which brings a vast amount of information which could be used for company research, usage statistics or just plainly stealing your information from all other websites simultaneously.

Paypal comes into play as that a paypal password is worth much more to a hacker than what it is your bank account number. The influences behind it comes from the amount of access to other accounts you get where a single bank account transaction that is made out of the usual patterns is detected a lot faster and gets blocked on the spot. Once a hacker has access to the multiple cards and accounts he can transfer himself money or make payments for goods that are digital and untraceable. By the time that the user realizes how many transactions have occurred it is already too late. An example of it is an accepted transfer between users since funds could have already been retrieved from ghost accounts or sent as global transfers to accounts that have closed hours before you notice.

Last thing to consider is that the value your information differs globally and that is because of the purposes of how much is allowed by the governments of the countries. That is, the type of transactions both monetary and digital, are regulated in different ways around the world. The examples of monetary worth we bring are for Brazil, Russia and China.

For Brazil an average account

Set of business application account credentials	US$155–193
Set of credit card credentials	US$35–135
Set of online service account credentials	US$19
List of mobile phone numbers	US$290–1,236
List of landline phone numbers	US$317–1,931

For China an average account

Personal information dump per MB	US$0.16
Set of email account credentials	US$163
Set of entertainment site credentials	US$325
Set of online gaming account credentials	US$0.05

For Russia an average account

Set of credit card credentials	US$4
300 IP addresses	US$6

For more information and an interactive way of comparing how much is your information click here.

Quieres ser un espía?

Quieres ser un espía? Empieza por bajarte TOR

Al principio me parecía brujería como los sitios web "adivinaban" lo que me gustaba y quién era. Luego me enteré que hay muchísimas maneras de saber exactamente quién soy y qué hago solo con mi número de IP. No se a ti, pero yo no estoy cómodo compartiendo esta información con todo el mundo.

Las buenas noticias son que ahora podemos navegar como lo hacen los espías y los agentes de inteligencia sin problema.

Te quiero presentar a TOR, tu nuevo mejor amigo si quieres navegar en privado.

Te dejo aquí el link, si quieres comenzar a navegar inteligentemente

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CITIZENFOUR

CITIZENFOUR, 

où l’institutionnalisation de l’atteinte au respect de la vie privée

Ca commence comme dans un film d’espionnage en pleine guerre froide. L’histoire est classique : une rencontre avec un agent qui a des révélations à faire en matière de secret défense. Le format est connu : des noms de code et, sur un écran d’ordinateur, une correspondance cryptée, un défilé de caractères jaunes sur fond noir. Pourtant, la fiction laisse vite place à la réalité. 

Ce documentaire retrace l’histoire, vraie, du système de surveillance mondiale et généralisée mis en place par l’Agence américaine de sécurité (NSA) qui, au nom de la sécurité nationale, a espionné les conversations de millions de citoyens et d’organisations. On y découvre comment cet organisme d’Etat a recueilli et stocké, en toute illégalité, une quantité sans précédent de données privées, dans une opération d’une telle ampleur que mêmes les plus hautes autorités de certains Etats ont été mises sur écoute. 

L’intérêt du documentaire réside dans son narrateur puisque c’est Edward Snowden lui même. Pendant plusieurs jours, on le suit depuis la chambre d’hôtel où il est caché à Hong Kong quand le scandale éclate. L’histoire est connue, on sait ce que cet ancien informaticien de ancien employé de la CIA et de la NSA va nous dévoiler. Et pourtant, lorsqu’il apparaît à l’écran, ce qui frappe, c’est son aspect juvénile. Difficile alors d’imaginer que, avec ses allures de gendre idéal, ce jeune homme de 29 ans va nous faire la démonstration que, derrière les atteintes à notre vie privée, ce sont les piliers de nos démocraties qui menacent de s’effondrer, et d’entrainer avec eux nos  libertés les plus fondamentales. 

هل تعلم؟

هل تعلم؟

إن شركة فيسبوك تقوم بتقديم خدمة مجانية لمستخدمي فيسبوك، في مقابل ذلك تقوم بوضع البيانات في يد شركات الدعاية التي تستخدمها لزيادة أرباح عملائها عبر العرض المناسب من السلع والخدمات خلال فترة استخدامك للفيسبوك. ان المستخدم بالنسبة لفيسبوك هو مصدر السلعة الأساسية التي يعتمد عليها في توليد الربح وهي المعلومات. لذلك يهدف فيسبوك بكل ما يستطيع إلى 

جرك للمشاركة بأكبر قدر ممكن من معلوماتك على شبكات التواصل الاجتماعية

أيضاً، عند إنشاء حساب جديد على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي فيسبوك يقوم الأخير بوضع إعدادات الخصوصية لحسابك في حدها الأدنى

تقوم شركة فيسبوك بإعادة إعدادات الخصوصية إلى الحد الأدنى مع كل تعديل على سياسة فيسبوك الخاصة بالخصوصية.

You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape Google.

There is a popular adage in Ecuador that says: Even if a monkey dresses up in silk, its still a monkey. I try to hide from google intentionally as much as I can. (I try to surf the web incognito, I have multiple gmail accounts for different purposes, hide my IP, etc)

However, Google knows me probably more than most of my peers in class do. (No I’m not intentionally hiding from them).

Here is what Google thinks of me, I'm impressed by some of their fairly accurate inferences.

Want to know what Google thinks of you? click on the following link:

Data privacy: a schizophrenic concern

Data privacy: a schizophrenic concern

With new technologies, consumers and internet users are both generating huge amounts of data and are increasing their concerns about who owns that information, how it can be misused, and for what. The number of people experiencing incidents of identity theft has been skyrocketing, and not to mention the threat of phishing which is particularly high on social media. Similarly, now the regular hacking of celebrities' private nude photos illustrates another type of violation of privacy based on stolen personal data from cyberspace.

One conclusion can be easily drawn from this example: private data has become increasingly vulnerable to cybercrime. Companies, governments, and global and local players are actively trying to develop actions against this new form of criminal activity through legislation, prevention, international cooperation and market solutions.

Indeed the opportunity for regulation and profit is huge. Today, the vast majority of internet users state being worried about on line privacy and security. However, identity theft, hacking, and phishing have something in common: they all rely on stolen information that is stored, saved and transmitted through social media and other avenues voluntarily by the “victims” themselves. This contradiction hides a bigger paradox: sharing more but giving less. Beyond this paradox, there might be a certain lack of consistency.  

What is the value of data?

What is the value of data?

Big data technology is allowing companies to collect big amounts of information about their customers. Without really knowing about it we are today giving out more information about our personal life and habits and we do it unconsciously and sometime consciously. While I was conducting my research on what value data has, I realized you could see it from two aspects.

1.     the core value(essence) of data

2.     what is the worth of data?

I’m just going to summarize a couple of points that I found most interesting in this two subjects about data value without being to lengthy.

If we look at the essence of data

·      Generate awareness that leads to a holistic view

·      Promotes dialog that creates deeper analysis

·      Challenges existing assumptions and gives us new insights

·      Put the greates value is what you discover from the data and put it into action

Now we look at the monetary value or the worth of data

·      Companies can easily put a value on there own data, they just need to look at the cost figures, its market value and its possibility go generate profits.

·      But when trying to value the data of other companies it becomes more trickier, because the value of data changes over time and depending on what the company is going to use the data for

·      The value of data tends to increase the more you use the data

·      Data that is used in several aspects of the business, for example tends to be more valuable to the business.

I have linked some interesting articles that I would like to share with who ever wants to read up a bit more.