The personal information of many individuals is held by large internet companies and organizations. Do you think the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages? Thesis statement: Disadvantages outweigh advantages

Private data from many people
is
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kept by big internet companies and organizations.
This
allows them to grant access to sensitive
information
such
as your personal name, your local address and your recent activities online, which helps you
filtering
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unwanted or unsuitable commercials online.
However
, failure to protect people's
information
may lead to privacy issues and damage the
companies
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reputation.
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essay will discuss the pros and cons of
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problem. Every website has something called "cookies". When you accept their "cookies", you allow that site to read your basic
information
, including your name, your location, nationality,
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your previous search history.
This
is very essential especially
big
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names like Google, Facebook, Youtube,
even
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Bing
,
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because it lets them
to
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display suitable advertisements to your personal preference,
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and prevent
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unwanted or annoying ads that may disturb you.
However
, if your data were improperly protected, it may lead to serious privacy problems. Your leaked
information
might be sold to anonymous hackers,
scammers
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for
a
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profit, and your safety is concerned. There was a time when Facebook - the biggest social media platform, was reported by users because their accounts
was
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hacked, the reason for
this
is
because
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the password linked to their account was stored in plain text, which data miners found out and exploited
this
fact to steal multiple accounts from different people. As the result, they have to pay a minimum of 2 billion dollars in damages. In my opinion, privacy should be the number one priority when it comes to individual info online, especially big internet companies as
this
affects their
userbase
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and the image of their company.
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