What is privacy? With the technological advancements of today's society privacy isn’t so private anymore. The idea that advancements in society have caused us to forfeit some privacy without even acknowledging it is quite insane. The permanency of the Internet, what you search up, what you participate in, it is all known forever by your internet provider. Photos or videos of a sensitive nature will forever be on the internet, no matter how private they are. The word private in our day and age no longer has the meaning it was supposed to uphold.
We watched six videos for class, discussing the reality of privacy in our world today. One covered emails, another covered topics of sexual exploitation and revenge porn. While these topics seem vastly different they both involve the matter of privacy and the way technology has affected it.
In reality privacy has changed, the emails you send can be read by your provider, the intimate photos you send could be leaked to the outside world without your knowledge, and everything you do online is connected to you.
One would assume that the government would be against the idea of companies buying and selling your data, the truth is it took them quite a while to even begin to comprehend the data we put at risk by using modern technology. While yes the government seems to put up more sanctions today then they originally had on technology it still doesn’t help prevent the data already lost.
At the end of the day the truth about privacy and modern technology is one that isn’t obscured from my view. I grew up in a generation that was warned about the things we put on the internet and the way we allow others to perceive us online and yet the fact that something as trivial as an everyday email being accessible to any hacker feels gross, like a small insect in the leg of your trousers.
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