Impact of Information Leakage and Conserving Digital Privacy

Abstract

The rise of globally integrated technology with a pace in technical intervention in diversified fields of social, financial, governmental, and defense services the world today is transforming into data age. This scientific development of storing and processing tasks within software territory had invaded the privacy of the users and individuals through technical attacks of existing and innovated technical solutions to discover and mine related information that may use for illegal and legal activities as per demand. Such a data, if extracted from a secured system, may harm a user or an individual in various ways depending on culprit's intention. It therefore becomes important to learn and understand the technical art of safeguarding their data while going digital. Privacy conserved data publishing should be an essential precondition for all data driven technologies. Keeping data safe and legal is another aspect. Existing protection mechanisms may not help in privacy mechanism due to unbalanced research in legal and illegal related technical innovations.