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How your data can be misused

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  How your data can be misused Whenever we use any website or application and sign up using our mail id, we agree with the terms and conditions of the provider. While many of these agreements are not necessary. They make their terms of how their company will use the personal data collected from the user. These data are used majorly in three ways: 1)      Personal data is analyzed and converted into meaningful information to provide the user with personalized advertisements. 2)        Personal data is sold to the data brokerage (companies who buy data). 3)      Data is used in research and development. In all three cases, companies are bounded to use personal data within a specific limit. Data misuse occurs when a company uses the personal data of the users beyond its original purpose. Sometimes the data misuse occurs by the mistake of an individual or third-party partners rather than directly from the comp...

What is air quality Index

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What is Air Quality Index According to world heath organization 90% of Earth population inhale polluted air. Every country, including India, is facing this problem. There are some cities of India in top 12 most polluted cities of the world like Delhi, Faridabad and Kanpur, where the level of pollution is very high and it's average value is more than 300. But how people find the level of pollution of a particular place? To indicate the level of pollution we use AQI (Air Quality Index). Air quality Index is a numerical scale from which we get day to day air pollution level report on human health and environment. We measure Air Quality Index in between 0 to 500 unit scale. According to it's value we identify the air pollution level. If the value of it is high then the pollution level is high. Identification of air pollution If the level of air quality Index is 50 unit or less then it is said to be good quality Index. If the value air quality Ind...

How Earth is healing because of lockdown

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How Earth is healing because of lockdown   According to Carbonbrief organization the carbon emission has been reduced to 25% from usual emission in four weeks before 30th of march in China.[3] Nowadays a pandemic is spreading terror all over the world. Till now almost every country has been affected by this and in United States the situation is getting critical day by day[2]. It seems like corona virus is a humanity destroyer but there are also some positive effects. China is one of the largest product-making country and has a large export-import business all over the world. Thus there are many big factories and the wastes, like harmful acids, pollute environment and due to the carbon emissions the atmosphere gets polluted. Due to the critical situation, China had to issue a lockdown and almost all the factories had been closed, which led to drop in carbon emission and other pollutants source.[3] Most of the factories use coal as a fuel to generate energ...