Pizza Paranoia: When Data Privacy Becomes a Forbidden Topping
In the current age where the digital world is widely prevalent, our personal information has become more exposed than ever. From online purchases to social networking sites, companies is making the most of your information being a subject of surveillance without your awareness. Accordingly, how do you feel about those cases when within the framework of data proving to the public such as private information, personal privacy is reduced in such cases? In this blog, the scenario of a pizza order reveals how any pizza team may have the amount of information, determining the relevance of data privacy and security. Imagine this: You're sitting at home, watching TV, and suddenly you crave a pizza. You pick up the phone, dial the number of your favorite pizza place, and place your order. Seems like a routine scenario, right? But what if I told you that during this seemingly innocuous interaction, the pizza store staff had access to a plethora of your personal data, including your credit card limit and even your health records? A video which was shared by our instructor and in which a man placed seemingly ordinary pizza order exposes us to a really disturbing fact of the utilized store staff who has access to the personal data despite its extent. In the call, the staff gave the customer the news that he had reached the credit card limit for the week or month; latter was recorded into the system. However, the mystery is not even close to being solved as the staff tells him that the pizza he ordered is not appropriate for him based on his health record, and the latter is how the exact details about his health were leaked and used by the pizza store to sell him a special dish. Subsequently, this conversation highlights how the safeguarding of data privacy and security matters, which might in turn prompt conducting a deeper scrutiny of the current regulations and policies around data collection and access. In general, this is a hypothetical scenario in which the failure of the pizza order signifies the possible risks involved in accumulating and exposing raw data to people without any limitation. Companies may however argue that accessing customer data allows them to offer better services but in stead there should be very clear lines of how customers' privacy policy must be protected. The individual's privacy data right makes him/her has the power of data and know about the data access. With the progression of the digital era, we must always safeguard our data privacy and campaign for rules and regulations that put our privacy and safety first in the internet.
