The Myth of Privacy in Today’s World by Randell P.

As we’ve discussed in class and as most of us have witnessed through online experience, privacy is something that is often violated. Unfortunately, violators of privacy don’t have a gaping scar on their face or wear an eye-patch. Often time they are someone you know, or, someone you’ve never even met in your life. Sounds grim right? This is the world of the internet now. Advertisers claim that the information that they TAKE from us with or without us knowing is for our own good because it targets certain ads for our interests. So it is almost like taking someone shirt or other belonging that they hold dearly because the thief will give them shirts just like it and of course, it is for our own good. There are new laws that are going to be incorporated into the FCC rules this November for the internet, but the maker of the website FreePress.org I believe feels that they aren’t strong enough. I heard it on the radio in the morning. Lets see what happens to the future of searching the net and the privacy pirates in the next few years.