In the digital age, the protection of personal information plays a very large role in the life of each of us. What is the digital side of your personal life? How much would you be willing to sell it to a complete stranger? Dutch student Sean Buckles sold it at auction for 350 euros.
The bold Dutchman's “digital soul” includes the exact address of his residence, access to medical records and a personal calendar with a schedule of important events, access to all email inboxes, as well as all information from social networks where Sean is registered. He also sold the logs of his Internet correspondence in various instant messengers and chat rooms, information on consumer preferences and even the history of his Internet browser. For all this, at one of the online auctions, he received a rather modest 350 euros.
Every day we leave a huge amount of valuable information about ourselves on the Internet, and almost none of us attach much importance to how important it may be, for example, for advertising companies. On the basis of our actions on the Web, it is possible to understand that we love, what we do, what we are interested in, and also much, much more.
Fortunately for Sean Buckles, The Next Web, which publishes news about information technology, has acquired his personal life. As the buyer promises, the acquired information will not be used to the detriment of the seller, but will only serve as excellent material for this media, which is currently writing a number of articles on the protection of personal information.
In the act of the Dutch student there are really a lot of interesting moral and ethical issues. What does it mean today to be completely open to society? How far have we gone by voluntarily publishing all information about ourselves on social networks? Would you sell your personal information for 350 euros with a hammer?
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