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The reading was quite long and somewhat  informative. However, it did touch on some key issues that are currently plaguing us in today’s society. Which is privacy. Personally, i consider myself a very private person, i don’t like my “business” being out there. I trust very few people with sensitive information. However, the privacy described in the reading is online privacy. Mainly dealing with Facebook and Google. I don’t have Facebook, so i’m somewhat indifferent and i don’t mind the information Google keeps on me. I actually find it beneficial because the purpose of them gathering any information about me is for advertising purposes. If only my television were like this i won’t have to sit through another Always Maxipad commercial. Other privacy concerns are GPS tracking your every move with smartphone technology. So what? I ask. I’m not going anywhere that i would be ashamed of, if anything this makes it less likely that i’ll be accused of a crime. I’m sure the recent execution of Troy Davis won’t have happened if he had a smartphone that helped with his alibi. On the other side of the coin, i can understand how people would feel concerned about their privacy and who is gathering information about them. Although Google gives them the choice to opt out of the program, I prefer Facebook’s option to opt in to their Beacon program. In conclusion, i feel unless an individual really has something to hide, then all the fretting about online privacy should be nipped in the bud. If this whining continues we might have to start paying for  services like Gmail, google maps, youtube, just because someone doesn’t want people to know they eat Taco Bell at 4 am in the morning.

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.

The readings explained that it can happen anytime that our privacy can be invaded; in where such people try to get our personal information for their own use. So, as this happening we need more protection when using electronic devices and storing our personal data. As we surf many websites the internet offers we don’t always realize what we really putting ourselves into, due to the fact that search engines will record some of the information that the user has been searching for. Many people would agree that we need privacy in everything because it should not be shared without their permission and is one way to keep personal information from hackers or any kind of people who use others personal data as to their advantage. Social networking sites like, Facebook now has changed and somehow invaded the privacy of several people in which it shows everything that someone has done while using the website.

In the reading “Online Privacy” it explains  to us how we no longer control that anymore, because it is easy to obtain an information anytime that it is needed. We the users felt safe at a certain point  up until now that technology have advance and should protect us, but instead facilitates it for everyone to get the information needed about an individual. They give you all these loads regarding how you can back up your prize information online to obtain it when the time come and do not guaranty any safety when it comes to that. Leaving something on the world wide web means pretty much anyone savvy enough with a computer can find there way of extracting the information. A great example of that is facebook. In the reading titled “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck.” it tells us how many users panicked when they introduced them to the news feed feature on facebook. How there privacy was less concealed as it was before.