Dealing with privacy issues

So what do you think, personally or professionally? How should we deal with privacy issues? or should we just
give up? In Europe, they have an opt-out default, we in USA have an opt-in default. big difference. If govt does
try to protect, what would happen to companies like Facebook, Google, whose main value is to be able to use
our info? In addition, with the Internet of Things, our data are being captured in almost everything we do each
day. Again in EU, they have the Right to be Forgotten regualtions that we don’t. Your thoughts?
EU has figured this out and established regulation to govern citizens privacy etc, effective in May 2018. It is
called GDPR. One day it will be here in US, hopefully. but only if we the people demand it.
the Chinese social score for citizens article is very interesting. of course it is
happening in some minor scale here. certainly it raises all kinds of privacy issues.
Cybersecurity has certain aspects to it. including endpoint device security, transmissions, host/servers,
IAM(Indentity Assessment Management), Denial of Service(DoS), Risk Assessment, Recoveries plan. You can
compromise the data to your benifits as soon as you can get into the network. endpoints devices are big
problems, especially with IoT coming online quickly. It depends on the sophistications of each device
manufacturer. transmission is relatively okay, with encriptions working fine. Think about your browser for
example, it handles your transmission security on your behalf and it is done well. host/servers are protected
well via firewalls etc. IAM are weak, that is why some have gone to two-steps authentication, taking a lot more
efforts to identify authenticity. There got to be newer and convenient protocols like biometrics etc. Risk
Management is a big deal. One can never be completely safe, so it is a matter of how much risk can you
afford. Usually you want to avoid risk, if not then pass it on to others(like vendors), hide risk, reduce risk, then
with what are still left, manage it, figuring out what to do when it happens, how to recover, how to control
damage, etc