Technological Trends

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Technological Trends

Today in our society our privacy has been periodically been taken away piece by piece. We no longer have control over what we want other’s to see. If someone can find the floor plan to my house just by inserting my license plate into a website then something is definitely wrong. Our privacy issues should be dealt with immediately, but it seems as if we are losing our privacy more and more as each day passes by.

There is no possible way as individuals to avoid this loss of privacy. The internet has given anyone the power to get specific details on anyone they wish. It keeps getting worse, President Bush is pushing the envelope over internet security and privacy. He is pushing a plan to permit internet surveillance. He is asking the U.S. Senate to ratify a global agreement created to help police worldwide cooperate to fight internet crimes. The agreement also makes it mandatory for each participating nation to grant new powers of search and seizure to its law enforcement authorities, this would allow Police to force an ISP to preserve a customers usage records and to monitor his or her online activity as it occurs. This is ridiculous, how can we allow our civil liberties to be destroyed like this?

Privacy is sacred to some, to other’s it’s unimportant. Most people would not like a random person to have such direct access to their personal information. I for one would never want someone I don’t know to have such in depth information about my house, or my car, or about my daily life. Is there any way for anyone to avoid this loss of privacy? It seems impossible unless someone would go to the extent of selling their house and car and relocating to some remote area of the desert. I will not give up my daily life and possessions just because my information is out there. As much as I despise my life being available to anyone it doesn’t bother me enough to actually do something about it. I ...