Online privacy friend or foe?

Generally we can be summed up as trusting individuals . We are easily swayed into believing the hype.  This is the case to be made in Patrick Marshall’s piece on ” Online Privacy”. He factually layers on the dangers associated with a lack of evolving regulations to kerb the advances of online developers. As quickly as they spin out new innovations in online interfaces , social media and digital access. We should have our legal team working on keeping our civil liberties and privacy in check. The Peeping Tom is no longer looking into your bedroom window but in fact is ubiquitous and has been updated to look at us 24/7 . We now live in an age where our naivety enables us to welcome all types of Trojan Horses believing it to be the latest innovation to make our existence more comfortable . Our nagging obsession to be in contact all the time is leaving a digital  DNA trail as Marshall so simply puts it. Face Book and other social networks linking our information to relative sites and people with similar interests friends of our friends soon we are not so insignificant anymore. We can be socially awkward in the real world, yet with our alter ego we become Gods on Face book. This Grandeur leads us to embolden ourselves becoming more confident and daring in putting our intimate information out there . Making a character assessment of us  by the company considering us for a position, change their minds. Despite our privacy settings only exclusive to friends and family. They are still able to acquire this information on us. We tout the latest gadgets as trophies but do we really ever stop to think that the GPS check in feature with our smart phones is really enabling spying on us . Mr X has just checked in to the Yankee Stadium. Our online searches  lead to more suggestions next time we open up the Internet to surf. No privacy protection there . Marshall elaborates on a worst case scenario where the vacation search you attempted leads to your destination being posted on Face book and loads of coupons being delivered to you, and then your absence getting into the wrong hands resulting in your house being burglarized. Friends there are now apps for the I Phone to broadcast its location when stolen and also to snap a picture of the perpetrator and email it to you. Have we given thought, if stealthily it is not doing the same when it is innocently in our possession as well? This is when I suggest that with the same admiration you tout such innovations around . You should do the same in funding a group of legislators to advocate for your civil liberties as well. To me that is really something to boast about , because after 911 and” The Patriot Act”, it disturbs me as to how far this spying will go….