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For this blog post I thought I would discuss my experience with companies handling my online information and what my thoughts about it are. Like many of my generation my entire life is online, and if that is good or bad is a whole different story but like so many I have an email, I have a twitter, I have an Instagram and I also give my information away to a ton of game development companies because I spend almost all of my free time either playing games or watching them. Thankfully for all my years I have yet to have a problem with my information being leaked or misused by another company which is pretty lucky because gaming companies have security breaches all the time. For instance when I was younger I used to play on Sony's console Playstation but during my third or so year in elementary school I switched to Microsoft's Xbox 360 because all of my friends had it, this was very fortunate for me because a couple years later in 2011 Sony was hacked and 77 million Playstation accounts were compromised and their information was leaked; I was very lucky because even though I switched to Xbox I still had the Playstation account so I was lucky to not have my information leaked. I think that with our entire society moving to the digital world I have more faith in the companies that I release my information to because there is this trust that is created, I'm trusting the company with my information and in turn I believe in them and support them. Even very recently I've had to put my trust in another game company because if I want to play their new game I have to allow their anti cheat client to have kernel access to my computer which means that they have access to all of my files and could potentially leak my information but I have enough trust in them to know that they won't do that because they already have a good reputation in the community.

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