Learning assignment #2

Discussions

Discussion 1(in Finnish): https://keskustelu.suomi24.fi/t/16321201/tietoturva-on-naennaista-#comment-102999616
Comment with signature “T. Toinen tietoturvakurssilainen” is mine

Discussion 2(in Finnish): https://keskustelu.suomi24.fi/t/4862179/onko-virustorjunta-valttamaton#comment-102999696
Comment with signature “T. Tietoturvakurssilainen” is mine

Information security in social media

When employees are using social media they should understand that after something is posted, it can be never taken back. So basic understanding and behavioral skills that any person using social media are necessary. Employees should also be made aware of their employers social media guides if there is one in place, because some employers do not want to be presented in some way or with some products for example. People should also be aware in general that many of potential employers check their employee candidates social media and it could affect their chances of being employed.

In discussion boards where people need to discuss under their own names it seems that discussions are generally more calm and decent. Regrettably, nowadays there are trolls and normal people wanting to aggregate the discussions creating fake profiles, and people should understand that some people only want to push your buttons and not get into the arguments. As mentioned before, the way people act in social media and media in general could affect the possibilities of getting employed and that could affect the way people discuss. For example the discussions in LinkedIn, a media that is used for professional networking, are very professional and lack that kind of aggregation almost completely.

In my previous post I brought up LinkedIn as the media that I like to use and employee/employer branding. When employees use social media and even create a brand for themselves, it affects the employer as well. Nowadays it is common for sales professionals to attend courses to create a personal brand to increase sales. On the other hand GDPR creates quite hard limitations to sharing personal information about employees from employers side. But in my opinion it is nice to see some kind of a story about the employees on the brands website, it give a more approachable feeling about the company.

As I commented on one of the discussions linked to this, if privacy is not taken care of it could lead to getting a virus. And you getting a virus does not affect only yourself but all the people you interact with the contaminated computer, email list, Facebook friends, you name it.

My digital identity

I am quite “incognito” in medias in Finland as my name is quite common. There are over 8500 women named Koskinen and over 25000 with the name Sanna.

When searching with my name, I found my LinkedIn profile picture and my LinkedIn profile. The Facebook searches did not bring my profile up. There was no other information related to me in the first 12 Google pages. I even tried to check with adding my location “Länsi-Uusimaa” but did not find anything related to myself.

GDPR Article 13

Before GDPR came many people did not know all the places that stored some personal information about them. Now GDPR allows more access and possibility for people to handle their own data. In my opinion the main point of GDPR is to give identification of who have access to what kind of personal information about the person in question. And give information if some information is stored or given to some other third party. Mainly the article gives people more access and ownership of their own data that is stored somewhere else. And the possibility to decline to give information and to get the information removed.

When thinking about social media and GDPR the main item that comes to mind is targeted marketing. If you are not allowed to store data to selling purposes it is difficult to make targeted marketing that commonly is a very big part of companies turnover.

Privacy in social media

I found a blog: Data privacy in social media and why it matters
https://wearesocial.com/blog/2020/03/data-privacy-on-social-media-and-why-it-matters

It was really interesting to read hard data to how people have acted in social media for example after Facebooks security breach and other revelations of lapsed security in social medias. The blog shows that many people limit the topics they share online and try to share the most personal data through closed social media such as Whatsapp. The blog highlighted the need to personalize the security settings at social media platforms to fit all the peoples needs.