In the reading The Future of Privacy: Other Resounding Themes by Lee Rained & Janna Anderson there are many point of views about the future of privacy. One of the themes that was right on the money is where it says, “Living a public life is the new default…It’s not possible to live modern life without revealing personal information… .” If we take a step back and look at social networks like Facebook, instagram and twitter etcetera it’s clear that the very foundations of these services are built on giving up personal information to enjoy the full experience that is offered. In a more extreme case as mentioned in class, certain apps require that you give up information in order for you to even use it. So in a sense you don’t really have a choice, you either go with the public flow to enjoy what modern inventions has to offer or live like an island spending tons of energy “trying” to be private.
The new generation of the human race live and breath being public, and so it has become ingrained in us to the point where we only feel threatened when government enters the equation. Privacy has always been our right, we just never use it.
First off I want to say I like the title that you picked for this blog on privacy. I also agree when you state “privacy is our right…” because we give up this right on an almost everyday basis when we use our apps or many of the social networks available to us. The point you made about people only feeling threatened when the government gets involved, is also something I absolutely agree with. People are always so paranoid about the government monitoring them but in this day and age if the government is truly monitoring us we have made it 10 times easier for them to do so with all the information we freely give.