With Advancements in Technology, Privacy Has Become a Thing of the Past.
Technology is an amazing and helpful addition 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 1960s, to the soup of Wi-Fi 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 Facebook shows that when changes implemented by Facebook, 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 Dannevig of Australia has pleaded guilty to murdering 18-year old TAFE student Nona Belomesoff after using Facebook 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,
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 Facebook shows that when changes implemented by Facebook, 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 Dannevig of Australia has pleaded guilty to murdering 18-year old TAFE student Nona Belomesoff after using Facebook 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,