Is our Personal Information Safe in the digital world?

By: Malak Al-Saqri

In the age of Internet and revolutions, it has become hard to keep your personal life safe and private. These days it's very easy to reach a person's contact, full name or where s/he lives, you can get to know a person and his/her entire family without meeting them in reality! it's hard to admit this ugly truth, but strangers can actually enter your own house without taking permission!

Not by doors or windows but through this small digital screen, they can share your own life with you! So, it is the perfect time to address this question, Is our personal information safe in this digital world?

What is the definition of private information?

First, let's get familiar with the origins of the word ‘Privacy’, it is derived from the Latin word ‘Privatus’ which means the state of being in retirement from the company or the knowledge and observation of others.