The Internet became less secure after personal computers went mainstream.
In other words, protecting personal information online was not an issue in the early days. The only vaguely personal service was e-mail, and its use for personal communication was frowned on.” You used the Internet from a school’s or an employer’s computer to do official work. “Computers and the Internet were not personal. “The original purpose of the Internet was to permit computers to exchange information,” says Jeff Schiller, a network security technologist who has worked at MIT for more than 20 years. It also kicks off Data Privacy Month, an effort to empower and educate people to protect their privacy, control their digital footprint, and make the protection of privacy and data a greater priority in their lives. Data Privacy Day, which happens every year on January 28, commemorates the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection.
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