Privacy risks can be assessed By Konrad Roeder c.
Some people say never send anything confidential or private over the Internet.
This may have been good advice five years ago, but things are changing quickly on the Internet. Privacy has been added to many programs and features so that only the recipient of the communication can read it. Thus there are times when it's perfectly safe to send credit-card numbers and other sensitive information over the net. It's not all that difficult to assess the risks and make a judgment whether or not to send the information encrypted or not. Let's first talk about where the risks of compromising your information really are.