Data on the move and Issues of Privacy and security: Dangers of the web

The internet was developed to share information among widely distributed computing systems without much thought about security, privacy or its commercial exploitation. The development of the web changed the dynamics of the internet as it was perceived by the business community as a immense opportunity to monetize the network by harvesting the information entrusted and being transmitted on it. The web, only an application of the internet, has become for most users the internet itself. In this paper we look at the privacy and security issues related to the changing face of data storage, transmission, mining and even computing itself on the internet, barely half a century from its inception. We provide some suggestions in the conclusion of the paper.