“Puppets dancing on stings”

Before these assigned readings on online ”privacy”, I was shopping online one day before looking for one of my text books online. Once I was done and began searching for my books I noticed ads for some of the sites I just visited. I found this completely disturbing. There is absolute no privacy anywhere, not online, during phone conversation and purchasing items at stores. Privacy is a word that the Government has given us to believe that we are autonomous beings, when in all actuality we are all just “Puppets dancing on strings”. It is unfortunate however, anything and everything requires us to depend on online services, for example: paying our phones bills, accessing openlab, filling out financial aid, applying for college, and the list goes own. This only allows us to be much more vulnerable to hackers and search engines recording our information to manipulate us.