Everyone needs their own privacy. Without privacy, people will interfere with our life and this will be troublesome. It is so important to have privacy, especially when living in the world we live now where there are no boundaries.
But, do you think that we really have privacy nowadays? Without noticing, almost every technology stores information about us. They are ranging from the cookies in the internet, the search engines, emails, voice mails, through telephones and also through promotion cards or we call discount cards. Yes, they invade our privacy. But, if we look on the other side of the story, they are important in many ways.
For example, the cookies are used by companies and advertisers as a medium that collects our identity data and synchronize the data with other sites in order for business. Other examples like the cookies are the Google, one of the most influential search engines in the world. They store the entire database that are being searched as a way to improve their service of providing the information and satisfies the curiosity of the users. Also, the databases are also used for the government to make statistics on some issues that are being searched by the people.
Other technologies like the emails, voice mails and telephone calls are all used for one purpose; to monitor people behavior. Companies, advertisers and also the government, they monitor people’s behavior in order to detect unimportant stuff of the workers, to see the trend in the business and to investigate some crime, respectively. These things are subjective. There are pros and also cons. We only have to keep trying to figure out how to reduce the invasion of people privacy because the invasion of privacy is inevitable nowadays.
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I definitely agree upon the comment of everyone needs their own privacy. I think this is a very good post and wanted to say how important the "invasion" of privacy is to capitalism. If it were not for cookies then how would advertisers know their most potential buyers. This is a very vital part of making money due to the changing world and everyone switching to the internet to do everything that used to be done in person.
To speak upon the fact that government can read our emails and monitor our phone conversations is a different story. I would not say it is vital for our country in any manner. It is downright disrespectful in my opinion that our country has to do this just for our own security. I do not mind them monitoring me, but I am sure some people really get upset at this. The only thing I have to say about it is that I think the situation is crazy. One could think of this as a way of bringing societies overall utility to a lower level because we have to watch everything that we do in a day due to the world always under some sort of danger.
I do agree with you. Our privacy is violated without us knowing it. This is definitely a new of capitalism seeping into our life. Technology is wonderful, as long as it is in controls. Some of the things you said, like cookies in web browser and e-mails are made to help us. But the way that some people use it, it abuses our privacy. Plainly, the companies. They used the cookies to trace our recent activities and uses e-mails to send advertisement, and claimed that this is based on their own 'research'.
On your second point, technology is not made solely for the purpose of monitoring. It is the way that we used it that made it that way. It the same as weapons. The purpose of its creation is to protect. Give it to the wrong hands would change its purpose to destruction. The only way to change it is by changing ourselves first.
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