Internet risks - the sharing issue

As our internet use becomes more and more a part of our daily lives, you would be quite ignorant if you think that your privacy is not running a greater and greater risk as time goes by. We like to use the internet, and we like to have it easy accessible at all times. With our smartphones, tablets and PCs, the world is only a tap or a click away from us. Everything is now available through an app or a website.

One of the things we seem to use the internet for more and more these days, and I can certainly relate to it, is shopping. Using the internet to shop makes it easier for us to compare models, price, etc. And with shopping comes, unfortunately, spending. We spend a vast amount of money through webshops every day. We often have accounts on numerous websites, where information about us is stored in our account settings. Some websites even remember your VISA-card number, and other personal data about you. All these data are, of course, protected by our advanced, or not so advanced personal passwords. So it´s all good. Well, of course not.

When using my PC it often asks me if it should remember this and that password for me, or remember the login settings for different websites. My PC is even communicating with my smartphone and tablet, so all the passwords it remembers is shared on all three devices instantly. And to be totally honest; I love it! Now I don't have to use a whole lot of time to remember all the different usernames and passwords I use. My PC even comes up with proposals for new passwords when I´m getting a new account somewhere. Very complicated password that I´d never remember, but I never have to, because the PC, my phone and my tablet remembers it for me. Nowadays I rarely log on to any website that i use often. My devices are doing it for me. It even remembers my VISA-card number! Brilliant! I only have to memorize the three digit CVC-code on the back of my card, and I can shop all i want, as easy as that!

And I could have gone on and on about this. Not only are our use of the internet more related to our daily lives, like shopping in this example, we are also starting to get very inpatient in a very dangerous manner.

Pete Pachal has some thoughts of Apples digital Keychain.

What if someone took my phone, tablet or PC? Logged into a shopping website where I've had my login details stored, and then emptied my bank account? Even though I have tools like Find my iPhone, Find my Mac, Find my this and Find my that it would have been quite easy to do something like this. This is what hacking and illegal usage of our user information all comes down to. What if someone stole my money? With our demands of a fast, easy and fun way to use the internet, my concerns goes to our privacy, and I'm not talking about party pictures posted on Facebook.

And even though you are watchful regarding your password and privacy, you could be hit by hackers through errors in the "internet system".  Heartbleed showed us that we can never be one hundred percent protected when sharing delicate information about ourselves on the internet.

But despite our knowledge about this we still share private information online. I´m wondering if we one day will look back and laugh at ourselves for sharing all this details. I sincerely hope not, but you'll never know.