Technology Is an amazing and helpful Dalton to our life, Improving by leaps and bounds in the recent decades, mainly during the Information Age. From the development of the Internet in the 1 sass, to the soup of Wi-If connections everywhere around us that enable us to connect to the Internet wirelessly, this marks a great milestone in technological history.
However, with such enormous advancements in technology, some of us have questioned that our privacy has quickly become a thing of the past due to a number of factors, and I agree with them. The Internet Is the perfect stalking device due to our lack of privacy.Today, we have over 100 social networking sites, and 56% of the world's population has admitted to using at least one amongst the many. In a seven-year Carnegie Mellon university study of Backbone shows that when changes implemented by Backbone.
Such as modifications to its user interface and default settings, led to a significant increase in the public sharing of various types of personal information. With the personal Information of more than half of the world's population readily available online, It Is undeniable that stalkers view the Internet as their resource haven.Not only is one's privacy breached online, but safety is also in the danger zone for some extreme cases. There are known examples of stalkers communicating with their victims in online social sites or chat rooms, luring them out and then kidnap or murder them. A Christopher Deadening of Australia has pleaded guilty to murdering 18-year old TAFT student Non Blossomed after using Backbone to exploit the student's love for animals and letting her believe he could give her work with animal rescue group WIRES.Such exploitation of personal Information and easy access to Individuals not only reveals our lack of privacy, but the element of danger is there as well.
The amount of spam we receive each day also Justifies the lack of privacy that we have. Email spam, also known as Junk mail, are electronic spam which involves sending nearly identical messages to numerous recipients via email. Spam messages may include unwanted advertisement or links that send users to sites that are hosting mallard.You might wonder how on earth these senders knew who you are and how to contact you. Here's a suggestion: companies that you give personal particulars to re selling them online like brokers exchanging stocks at Wall Street.
CEO of privacy technology firm Pravda Inc Rick Jackson says "The data world is a very powerful and lucrative marketplace with a lot of players involved. " As evidence, he points to a Washington Post story that revealed that 11 pharmaceutical companies, including Falter Inc. Smothering Became PAL, Gallo Welcome PAL, had formed an alliance and were tracking every click consumers made across their sites, then comparing notes. Consumers were never told of these activities.
The now-bankrupt Outsmart. Mom was sued after it planned to liquidate its customer database to the highest bidder. All these examples show that big corporations are selling your personal information to someone else, all in the interest of money, without your consent or knowledge.It Is therefore prevalent that our privacy on the Internet is government.
Edward Snowmen, the former CIA information technology employee and contractor for the National Security Agency, has famously proven this point by lifting the veil on the military-intelligence spying apparatus, used by the government to be employed against any and all political opposition. With the information it has already assembled, the government can readily construct a detailed social and political profile of nearly every individual in the US.An operation that has gone undercover for nearly 7 years, this unethical practice has denied us our privacy due to this advancement of technology, therefore privacy is indeed a thing of the past. However, some argue that privacy is not a thing of the past. Ironically, it is due to the advancements of technology that privacy is ensured. Companies are trying to clean up the exploitation of their memory banks.
Industry groups including AT and American Online are designing new privacy notices. Backbone has announced that it would change its privacy policy to give users a simpler way to control who sees information the user shares.Advertisers are also part of this revolution to help protect privacy. Recently, four leading advertising trade associations announced they would recommend their members direct users to a site where they could learn what information had been collected on them, how it was being used, and opt out if they wished. With such measures taken to ensure our privacy and the security of our arsenal information, is it not fair to say that the technical innovations and initiatives these companies have made privacy a thing of the present?However, these companies are only starting to take action for privacy due to external pressure from support groups and the public.
Even though we might see the light of privacy with these measures popping up, our privacy has already become a thing of the past, with companies exploiting our information for money, governments spying on us every day, stalkers finding online victims to kill, privacy as we know it has died due to advancements of technology.
