New Delhi: Today we can quickly make a video call to our friend doing business in foreign countries. Now, which Kanta Bai could not come home in Corona, what happened is there are online food delivery platforms for belly worship. If you are unable to meet a friend in lockdown, then there is a salute on social media. Hey, these days music concerts are also happening online. Also, more children are studying online. Just with mobile or laptop, telecom companies like Jio need a spiky data plan. 20 years ago, these things could not be expected. But technology has made it easier. But technology brings with it many dangers. An online class can be hacked and disturbed as well as someone can steal our private information. Scientists have developed encryption technology to avoid all such threats like these.
No one can read your message
If explained in common terms, encryption technology converts any data into a code, which has no meaning. You understand this code as a key. Whoever has this key Only he can make true meaning of those words. Now you must have noticed that it is written on your WhatsApp that this chat is end to end encrypted. This means that there are two ends of this chat. That means you and your friends with whom you are communicating. Apart from them, no one has the key to read your message. Not even with WhatsApp itself. In such a situation, no one can read your personal words. This key is stored in your phone only. And immediately before you read that message it changes back to its initial form.
Our personal details exist in many places
If you want to get jeans today, then you have to enter the credit card password details along with your home address. The school reserves a lot of personal information with them while studying online. Such as email and photo via name, address class and phone number. Now we also run net banking. All the hospitals also maintain our entire accounts in the computer. And in the email, we do not know how many papers are kept. If someone steals all this data, your bank will be cleared. We do not realize the importance of privacy when digital piracy does not happen on us or with any of us.
Supreme declared fundamental right to privacy
It is very important to maintain your privacy while giving any information on the Internet. Maintaining privacy is so important that believe the Supreme Court has declared privacy as a fundamental right. The responsibility of maintaining privacy is not only that of the government or companies but also of us. We also need to be vigilant. The government has encouraged companies to protect our privacy with encryption technology under Section 24 of the Data Protection Bill 2019. The speed with which we are getting absorbed in the technology. It is necessary that we understand that technology well. Otherwise, serious losses may have to be incurred.
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Technology can help
It is not wrong to adopt technology. Whatever society needs to progress, technology will have to appreciate it. But it is equally important that we remain aware of the dangers of technology. Encryption technology can help us in this. Encryption is an important initiative of this story. But apart from this, we also need to be careful. Now if we come and leave our phone without any password, then there is no use of not having encryption. Today the government and companies, whether we talk about Aadhaar data or financial and medical data, are trying to protect all our data with encryption technology. In such a situation it is better to use an app or website with encryption technology.
Note- This article has been written by Pranab Bhaskar Tiwari, who is the manager of ‘Encryption Technology and Online Security Program’ in The Dialogue. Pranav keeps writing on issues related to encryption technology and online security in publications in leading magazines, newspapers.
