By Danielle Brooks |Staff Writer| Americans are concerned with losing their privacy, but they may be surrendering their own privacy by using social media sites at their own will. A study conducted in January 2014 by Pew Research found that 74 percent of online adults use social media. However, these social media sites require private information when creating an account. “I deleted the Facebook app from my phone after the whole Facebook Messenger controversy,” said Elizabeth Hemmelgarn. “I didn’t like the fact that they could gain access to my personal information.” Earlier in the year, Facebook created a new Facebook Messaging app that was intended to be faster than the … [Read more...] about Americans want privacy but our posts beg to differ
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Surveyed students choose phone over wallet
By Brenda Servin |Staff Writer| More than 55 percent of CSUSB students said they’d rather lose their wallet than their smart phone. When people lose their wallets, they fear that the information lost will be used to steal their identities. The amount of personal information that we keep on our phones is greater than the contents of our wallets. Unless you keep your social security card in your wallet, which means you’re begging for someone to steal your identity. I don’t know about you, but I have all my passwords saved in my phone to make it convenient to check my mail; this can pose as a great vulnerability. E-mail accounts contain so much more information and grant … [Read more...] about Surveyed students choose phone over wallet