Security News > 2022 > February > We get the privacy we deserve from our behavior

The latter is owned by the employer and we adjust our expectations of privacy accordingly.

These won't always prevent privacy compromise through data leakage, though - such as when we become the victim of a colleague sending an email to the wrong recipient.

In the ongoing negotiation of digital privacy, the lessons of what data to share have certainly been learnt by some - namely that social media postings from many years ago can still come back to haunt or embarrass.

There is a desire for privacy but also a simultaneous lack of appropriate security behavior by individuals - behavior such as using the same insecure password for multiple sites, signing up to just about any site for a 10 per cent discount, or even a reluctance to use security measures such as multi-factor authentication.

There is a desire for privacy but also a simultaneous lack of appropriate security behavior by individuals.

We can dance with our data like no one is watching, or we can protect our privacy by being more selective about what we communicate.

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