How Private is your Privacy?

Many people think their personal affairs are private but in reality they have very little privacy. There is a number of individuals unaware that their being watched closely. Well there is no hard evidence on the number of people that are actually being investigated, but you'll be surprise there is more than you actually could imagine. There are more detectives around you than you think doing an online investigation on you or maybe someone you know right under your nose and are completely oblivious to.

In many cases people accept it as an everyday pattern and most individuals just accept it as a nuisance as part of their life. So what are the things that people use to do investigations into your personal life? Well let’s start with your monthly bills for examples. Let’s start with your phone bill. You didn’t maybe think about it but people have access to the people you call, the amount of time you spend talking to certain people or places of business and where you make the calls from.

In reality with the introduction of cellular phones that receive and send out digital signals to satellites you can be trace and pinpoint to a certain place and time with the information that the phone companies provide. Scary huh? Kind of remind you of futuristic movie you seen?

Now how about the credit card you use? You are always wondering what you should spend your money on and do not want no anyone to know how much money you spend. Well someone knows! Your name and your credit card number is associated together and is recorded in a directory every charge that you make, what items you bought ,the quantity of items that were bought and of course, how much you spent at the store and what particular store your credit card was used.

There are many ways they can search and pinpoint where you are and at what time. You can imagine how available of this information is to the officers of the law to locate someone when there are carrying out an investigation. Hopefully, this doesn’t concern you but rather your privacy may not be as secure as you thought.

How about that your computer and the Internet? Well this might be the least understood and one of the most vulnerable places for people to be victims of identity theft. Many people have parts of their lives that they do not want to be publicly known and many if not most of them may have shocking things but legitimate and sensitive documents they want protected.

With today's advancement of technology more people have documents of their information on the computers, including sensitive personal information, and if you are connected to the Internet you are at risk. Leaving your computer unprotected is basically an open door for whoever would want to take advantage of your personal information.

This information will show you how you spend your money or where you surf on the Internet but also contain important health records, financial records, and maybe your personal family documents, etc.

So do yourself a big favor and become aware how to take steps of any invasion of your privacy via subversive and subtle techniques of investigation.