Online Privacy

 Within today's day and age we have almost zero privacy. Technology has created a world where nothing is private and anyone in the world could know everything about you from just a few clicks. There are also many instances these days where we don't even know our information is becoming known. This is especially prevalent within Christopher Sotoghian's TED talk where he discusses phone calls and the way in which we are being listened too. Without our knowledge it is said that the government secretly listens too and notes down our private phone calls every single day. The government wants this information and has been especially upset with newer technology that has been stopping them from being able to listen. As we advance more and more phones are now able to stop these hacks with encryptions and are causing frustration within the government. For now I guess the question is whether we as people care or don't care about the government listening in on our private conversations. 

    However, it is not only the government that we have to be worried about. Other issues may arise such as the ones seen within Darieth Chisolm's TED talk where she discusses private images of herself that her ex boyfriend had posted to the internet for everyone to see. She has coined this term as revenge porn.  Nowadays with social media being so prevalent it is scary to think. about the ways in which someone you know could ruin your whole life or reputation within seconds. A single stupid image or video could result in terrible events. Social media has cerated a world in which we all watch each others every move and judge each other off of images or 10 second clips. There is pretty much nothing we can do about this which is also what makes it so terrifying. As we move further and further on with technology issues such as this one may only seem to get worse. 

With all the privacy issues within our so society there is only one question we can ask ourselves. How do we prevent it? In my opinion, there are multiple stances to take on this topic. When involving the government I feel that we may actually have a chance at change and stopping these issues in the future. If we as people can take a stand form the government we may be able to limit the amount of information taken from us/listened to without our knowledge. It may seem impossible but there must be ways in which the government can be called out or even stopped for their actions thus far. On the other hand when it comes to us as people I feel that there is no prevention. Whether it is our family, friends, or even community there is no stopping a single persons actions in posting something about you whether it is true or not. The only way we can try to prevent this to be better as people and to not put ourselves into situations where we are vulnerable for something like that to happen.