The handling of personal information is a sensitive issue and should be treated with the utmost confidentiality. ‘Be Seated’ is liable to treating peoples private data securely and with compassion.
The personal information supplied by the user for the service that Be Seated offers, could be stored in encrypted forms on a server, which means it won’t be read directly by third parties, ensuring privacy, keeping the user’s right to their legal information.
As preventive measures in addition to encrypting, users must create a key with certain parameters such as number of letters, numbers and special characters. This will further protect their privacy.
It is not considered user anonymity because Be Seated is a social network that functions based on the trust of users.
The paradox of privacy is considered obvious, because the more activities demonstrated by a user and the further storage of data which shows their tastes and preferences for sites could identify them. Privacy is a complicated concern that no SNS can ignore.
