Privacy is the right to be left alone to do what you want in secret. All across the nation our privacy is being exploited by companies, criminals and drug users. There used to be a time when we could be confident that no one could learn too much about our personal lives. There used to be a time when information was merely a way of keeping records. That time is gone and with it went a large amount of what we might call our personal privacy. Is technology to blame for our loss of privacy?
The world is changing rapidly and technology has a lot to do with it. In the essay Invasion of Privacy by Joshua Quittner many details suggest the numerous ways we are losing our privacy. Quittner states that like many of us he did not think of his privacy as much. "For the longest time, I couldn't get worked p about privacy: my right to it; how it's dying; how we're headed for an even more wired, underregulated, overintrusive, privacy-deprived pla
net.aE? He took his privacy for granted until some one seized his phone. The person didn't do anything bad with it but Quittner realized that the person could have done real serious damage to him "he could have sabotaged my credit rating. He could have eavesdropped on my telephone conversations or siphoned off my E- Mail. He could have called in my mortgage, discontinued my health insurance or obliterated my Social Security Number.aE? He felt violated like most people would have in his position. Keep in mind that was just a person hacking another person's phone and look at all the things they could have done.
Privacy is one of our most cherished aspects of our lives. Even though privacy is important to us we willingly give it up for a more comfortable life. Our privacy invaded is the price we pay for comfort. Like everyone else I give my privacy away. I try not to think about it a lot or stress it because if I worried a lot ab
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