On the black market of the Internet, our personal data can be worth between 30 and 200 dollars

"Today, we do not know what our digital identity is before mbadive data processing, and no facet of our privacy is out of the public eye," he said. -he exposes. Johanna Caterina Faliero, international consultant and consultant in IT law, data privacy, personal data protection and data governance.

In the dark or deep Internet market, our personal data can be worth between $ 30 and $ 200, "said the professor.

Faliero has exhibited this Friday and Saturday the diploma in digital law and state 4.0 organized at the University of Champagnat, coorganized with the INDIE LAB, composed of professionals from the fields of law, public administration and information systems . , among other areas.

"We intuitively believed that the private sector, the applications, the social networks, the providers, were the ones that put the most in danger of violating the protection of our personal data." But today, we are immersed in a world where privacy has been blurred and where the state is one of the largest data pools, setting up a surveillance company before the application of mechanisms such as biometrics and video security " said the specialist PhD student in data protection.

What are the critical and strategic badets in terms of personal data and data confidentiality that make integral governance of this badet, which is one of the most important of the digital age, part of the concepts do you conform to? this training proposal developed over two days.

"In recent years, problems stemming from tensions in information and communication technology and personal data protection ecosystems have worsened, and these technologies are specifically designed to interact in a user-friendly environment. and users are depositing vast amounts of data virtually indefinitely, either unintentionally, unused or sometimes even for business purposes, "said Faliero.

The consultant noted that despite the natural benefits of these information and communication technologies, such as the ability to connect, connect, and intensify information flows; These advances are in turn a double-edged sword, as they can undermine our right to privacy and even our psychophysical integrity.

"The user, both on the Internet and in any application of information and communication technologies, must maintain more robust data that he does not wish to disclose.because the control of this data is lost and we are left at the mercy of the data that circulate. We need to know what type of profile to use and what information to dump, and that sensitive data is reserved for us. You need to know how to make the most of the privacy and security settings.", Recommends Faliero.

According to the latest study of the World Telecommunication Summit (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICT, more than half of the world's population is already online.

At the end of 2018, 51.2% of people, or 3.9 billion people, used the Internet. This represents an important step towards a more inclusive global information society. In developed countries, four out of five people are online, reaching saturation levels.

In developing countries, however, much remains to be done to only 45% of people use the Internet. In the world's 47 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Internet use remains relatively low, at four out of five (80%).

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