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In order to actually find information about me, you have to look up my name in addition to other parameters. For instance, if you look up "John Wisniewski Umich" the first result is actually about me! Who knew that I would appear. This page is my LinkedIn page, which I will talk about in a little bit. However, if you look up my full name ("John David Wisniewski," and now since you know my middle name you cannot betray me), I do not appear. If you look up my name and my home city you can access my voting records and information, which contain my address (which is scary). If you look up my name and my highschool you can access some of my sports records, including an article in a newspaper about my performance in a swim meet (which shows an old photo of me)<ref>http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/March%20CL%20Final.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/2015%20Feb.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/May%20CL%20Final.pdf</ref>. You can also access my 5k splits<ref>https://www.newtontiming.com/results/15/hartland/5krun.html</ref> and my mile time (somehow I was able to run a mile in 5:35 which is astounding)<ref>https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/SchoolRecords.aspx?SchoolID=35809&Grade=8</ref>. [[File:JohnWikiLinkedin.png|thumbnail|a photo of my linkedin]]You cannot access my best 5k time though, as my coach mistakenly thought my name was "Jon" the entire time I ran cross country (and yes I never corrected him). If you look up my U of M uniquename you can see my medium posts. | In order to actually find information about me, you have to look up my name in addition to other parameters. For instance, if you look up "John Wisniewski Umich" the first result is actually about me! Who knew that I would appear. This page is my LinkedIn page, which I will talk about in a little bit. However, if you look up my full name ("John David Wisniewski," and now since you know my middle name you cannot betray me), I do not appear. If you look up my name and my home city you can access my voting records and information, which contain my address (which is scary). If you look up my name and my highschool you can access some of my sports records, including an article in a newspaper about my performance in a swim meet (which shows an old photo of me)<ref>http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/March%20CL%20Final.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/2015%20Feb.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/May%20CL%20Final.pdf</ref>. You can also access my 5k splits<ref>https://www.newtontiming.com/results/15/hartland/5krun.html</ref> and my mile time (somehow I was able to run a mile in 5:35 which is astounding)<ref>https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/SchoolRecords.aspx?SchoolID=35809&Grade=8</ref>. [[File:JohnWikiLinkedin.png|thumbnail|a photo of my linkedin]]You cannot access my best 5k time though, as my coach mistakenly thought my name was "Jon" the entire time I ran cross country (and yes I never corrected him). If you look up my U of M uniquename you can see my medium posts. | ||
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| + | I also briefly wanted to mention my Twitter account, as it is public but is not associated with me. I have not included my name, phone number, or email on the profile, but my data is most likely open to researchers and the Twitter API. | ||
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It was at this point in writing this essay I decided to take a break. Writing so much about yourself is very taxing, the dichotomy of being known despite my best intentions of staying private on the internet is a lot to take in. We should all get a round of applause for completing this assignment. Anyways, enough of the brief (for you) intermission, I will get on with my online identity. | It was at this point in writing this essay I decided to take a break. Writing so much about yourself is very taxing, the dichotomy of being known despite my best intentions of staying private on the internet is a lot to take in. We should all get a round of applause for completing this assignment. Anyways, enough of the brief (for you) intermission, I will get on with my online identity. | ||
| − | Beyond my LinkedIn account, I do not really appear much online. However, this is not to say that I am not online. I have public accounts on Tik Tok, Snapchat, and Twitter however, it is much harder to find these accounts. I have private social media profiles on almost all of the popular social media sites, including three Instagram accounts and one Twitter account. | + | Beyond my LinkedIn account, I do not really appear much online. However, this is not to say that I am not online. I have public accounts on Tik Tok, Snapchat, and Twitter however, it is much harder to find these accounts. I have private social media profiles on almost all of the popular social media sites, including three Instagram accounts and one Twitter account. I also am active on discord, slack, youtube, and GroupMe, however, I do not believe you can search individual users on these platforms. |
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| + | I have attempted to look up these profiles in the respective apps, and it was hard to find them. Most of them are anonymous or not associated directly with me. My "professional" Instagram and other social media profiles do not show up when you search my name, this could be because I do not have a lot of followers (despite the usernames being some variation of my name). This was interesting because I figured even if my account was private, people would still be able to see it: however, this is most likely not the case unless you know my exact username. | ||
==what do I think?== | ==what do I think?== | ||
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| + | Despite all this, I am more than positive my data is still being collected. I have investigated Instagram's privacy policy, and they are collecting data on me. Not only are they collecting data about what I view and how I interact with other users on the platform but they also collect data based on my device and location<ref>https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875</ref>. Their private policy in my opinion seemed to collect a lot more information than other sites, for instance, Discord. Discord, while it collects a lot of information, it does not monetize it or use it for advertising purposes (which is totally a possibility)<ref>https://discord.com/privacy</ref>. Instagram appears to collect a lot more information for services I will never use (which seems to be a front to just collect more data). | ||
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| + | Even LinkedIn appears to have a much better privacy policy. As I mentioned earlier, II looked | ||
Revision as of 19:41, 17 February 2021
Hi! Nice to meet you, my name is John (you can call me Jon or John whatever you want). If you wanna learn more about me feel free to read About John Wisniewski. I know you probably came to this page expecting a highly polished essay about my online identity: however, I wanted to make something a bit more personal. I don't know what inspired this or if I'll end up keeping this page like this, but as for now buckle up and enjoy the story of my online identity. If there's one thing I've learned (and that I hope to convey) it's that I live under the illusion of data privacy.
Public Information
Not a whole lot of my information is public. I have worked very hard to make sure that my information is private (at least to outside viewers). When you look me up (like "john Wisniewski") no results about me come up. This is mainly because there is a prominent politician that shares my name (if you haven't ascertained, my name is pretty popular). He looks a little bit like Joe Biden and also appears to have finished serving in the New Jersey legislature (he also asserts that my last name is pronounced incorrectly)[1].
In order to actually find information about me, you have to look up my name in addition to other parameters. For instance, if you look up "John Wisniewski Umich" the first result is actually about me! Who knew that I would appear. This page is my LinkedIn page, which I will talk about in a little bit. However, if you look up my full name ("John David Wisniewski," and now since you know my middle name you cannot betray me), I do not appear. If you look up my name and my home city you can access my voting records and information, which contain my address (which is scary). If you look up my name and my highschool you can access some of my sports records, including an article in a newspaper about my performance in a swim meet (which shows an old photo of me)[2][3][4]. You can also access my 5k splits[5] and my mile time (somehow I was able to run a mile in 5:35 which is astounding)[6]. You cannot access my best 5k time though, as my coach mistakenly thought my name was "Jon" the entire time I ran cross country (and yes I never corrected him). If you look up my U of M uniquename you can see my medium posts.
I also briefly wanted to mention my Twitter account, as it is public but is not associated with me. I have not included my name, phone number, or email on the profile, but my data is most likely open to researchers and the Twitter API.
Even though I curate the information, I do not fully control how my data is used. When I created my account I did not look into the privacy settings. Now, when researching this project I have found the many areas where I allowed LinkedIn to use my data. For some reason when I made my account, I assumed I could trust LinkedIn with my data, and believed they would not use it in a bad manner: However, I will talk more about this later. My information was also available to recruiters and anyone who looked me up.
Despite my LinkedIn profile, A lot of public information you will find on me is very confusing. Since both my first name and last name are very popular (my mom says our last name is like the polish version of "smith"), there is a large amount of John Wisniewskies online. Even when you look up my high school and my name, other results come up that don't pertain to me. This is a trend I saw a lot, if you didn't know anything about me, you would have a very hard time looking me up. I often wonder how other people interpret the information they find when they search for me. Do they realize the information is from someone else? Do they think the other Wisniewskis that come up are related to me? I will never know.
Private Information
It was at this point in writing this essay I decided to take a break. Writing so much about yourself is very taxing, the dichotomy of being known despite my best intentions of staying private on the internet is a lot to take in. We should all get a round of applause for completing this assignment. Anyways, enough of the brief (for you) intermission, I will get on with my online identity.
Beyond my LinkedIn account, I do not really appear much online. However, this is not to say that I am not online. I have public accounts on Tik Tok, Snapchat, and Twitter however, it is much harder to find these accounts. I have private social media profiles on almost all of the popular social media sites, including three Instagram accounts and one Twitter account. I also am active on discord, slack, youtube, and GroupMe, however, I do not believe you can search individual users on these platforms.
I have attempted to look up these profiles in the respective apps, and it was hard to find them. Most of them are anonymous or not associated directly with me. My "professional" Instagram and other social media profiles do not show up when you search my name, this could be because I do not have a lot of followers (despite the usernames being some variation of my name). This was interesting because I figured even if my account was private, people would still be able to see it: however, this is most likely not the case unless you know my exact username.
what do I think?
Despite all this, I am more than positive my data is still being collected. I have investigated Instagram's privacy policy, and they are collecting data on me. Not only are they collecting data about what I view and how I interact with other users on the platform but they also collect data based on my device and location[7]. Their private policy in my opinion seemed to collect a lot more information than other sites, for instance, Discord. Discord, while it collects a lot of information, it does not monetize it or use it for advertising purposes (which is totally a possibility)[8]. Instagram appears to collect a lot more information for services I will never use (which seems to be a front to just collect more data).
Even LinkedIn appears to have a much better privacy policy. As I mentioned earlier, II looked- ↑ Wikipedia:John Wisniewski
- ↑ http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/March%20CL%20Final.pdf
- ↑ http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/2015%20Feb.pdf
- ↑ http://www.hartlandschools.us/documents/Community%20Life/May%20CL%20Final.pdf
- ↑ https://www.newtontiming.com/results/15/hartland/5krun.html
- ↑ https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/SchoolRecords.aspx?SchoolID=35809&Grade=8
- ↑ https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
- ↑ https://discord.com/privacy
