Facebook, another social media giant, regularly finds itself under fire for its policies toward user privacy. In fact, a few years ago Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was widely quoted as saying we social media users have no expectation of privacy is this new electronic world.
Police agencies and others are starting to use technologies like GPS tracking in your cell phone, programs that monitor your every move on the Internet, and even cameras mounted at intersections to take photos of your license plate to store in giant databases.
The bottom line for Google, Facebook and others is the bottom line. They want to gather as much personal information about you and me as they can, slice and dice it, and provide it (sometimes for a price) to their advertisers to pitch ads and commercials to you. But in the end this may not be about advertising, as annoying as that is. This has to do with your right to privacy and—if you’ve been injured and hired an auto accident attorney from the Law Offices of Dianne Sawaya—with keeping insurance companies out of your private business.
Your life could soon become an open book—a book that can be read by a lot of people, including insurance companies. We tell our clients to be very careful about what they do and say online. If you’ve been injured in a Denver personal injury accident, you can bet that insurance companies are checking you out on Facebook and Google. If they find anything they can use against you, you can be sure they will.
Our Denver auto accident lawyers have developed a list of tips for protecting your privacy on the Internet. Give us a call and we’ll be happy to tell you more about it.
And if you’ve been hurt in an accident, you need a personal injury attorney who will get you the money you’re entitled to, and won’t let the insurance companies get away with paying you anything less. Give me a call at today at (303) 758-4777, email me at DLS@dlslawfirm.com or visit our web at www.dlslawfirm.com for more information.
Let’s talk about your case. There’s no cost or obligation. We’ll help you get the money you and your family deserve for the injuries you’ve suffered. And remember: If we take your case, we don’t get paid unless you get paid.
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