Now again, the issue of data privacy has been risen up, after whistleblower Christopher Wiley released his gut secrets about Cambridge Analytica claiming of illegal and unethical access to tens of millions of users (claimed upto 50-60 millions) through series of events and involvement of tech geeks, investor with billions and much more to expose yet. And after founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg appeared for clarification and future plan, people not being satisfied with his remarks have begun various trends of #d3l3t3fac3book (this does not list to be on the tag-lists) with the rage, and the real parody is that this is being used on other similar-type social media like the same medium as it rooted to.

First of all let us welcome all those aliens to our planet who are crying for those flash out of so-called their sovereign data as if they were in belief that their data were private on their own on SOCIAL-media. And also let us not forget to welcome all those who post such tag line and check frequently how many likes, comments, retweets, shares or favorites the post has earned, and measuring it as SOCIAL-status.

This series of events are just analogy to something that happened few years ago, the-then Edward Snowden events series (opting out the secrets of FISA, PRISM, and many more), and will this have serious impacts on social media, will that cause serious drops on users profiling, and the answer goes No. It is similar to the fact that all people know “Smoking and Drinking are injurious to health”, and has this knowing cause any significance in dropping or preventing such addiction, the answer is known to all.

Does this all is meant for urge to act as spectator for all happenings and don’t care about our privacy? A Big NO. But, the way accusing being thrown is not the actual way to do it. We are the one who like the suitable feeds on our display and this demands analysis, and for analysis, the previous data are utmost. For an instance, in Facebook, if we don’t care about post from someone (whom we have parted few years ago and have no further significance), Facebook feeds avoid such on display, so that it can have place for some interesting (addictive to be peculiar) to its user. By help of psycho-graphic profiling, those social media tend to make the users attached to them by finding out what we tend to like or find interesting. And we are the people who want to know how we’ll look when we get older, who is the one loving us the most, what we will be doing after 15 years, how we’ll be like if we were of opposite sex, or which celebrity we are most similar to, and for finding out these, we don’t care anything else, we just feel so eager to press OK and NEXT without reading terms for what it is sharing. And for information, Facebook is just the platform, these are all 3rd party applications what want data on request, and we are the one giving them access-window.

Of course, being one of the leading tech-power of the world, Facebook (and such technology organizations) cannot pay for mistakes, their small mistake can also make huge impacts on large scale, like in Cambridge Analytica event series, the first anomaly seems to be access to share data of not only those using the Apps, but 2nd degree connection (their friends), without letting them to know, and secondly, after such disastrous discovery earlier on, they didn’t think to let people know about such-disastrous scandal or they don’t think it important to follow up the deletion claims made of such data. Their so-called small mess-up can also result to huge disastrous chained-up events.

Thus, for hot-cake of discussions of privacy issue, lets not make this another Edward Snowden Case,or next-wikileaks forgetting after some pass, but let us act sincerely, we people have our parts on maintaining our privacy and those tech-institutes have their own, and let us hope, they will consider these privacy concerns seriously, as, if they need, they can ask for consent, and those who give approval may only help.