Hey you! Yes… you, the one that is reading this right now! Did you know that someone out there is watching every click, search, and comment you make on the internet and that all of your internet data is recorded and stored? Creepy, huh? Now, you are upset because you think your privacy is being invaded, but you will continue to use the internet and all of your favorite apps because you love the new technology and what you are able to do with it. Today, people are angry because they think they have little to no privacy, but by participating in new technology they are complicit to their lack of privacy. It wasn’t until the late 1960’s that the internet was officially created, then in 1973 cell phones and networks were worked on, and in the
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The Amazon Echo named Alexa came out in 2015. People enjoy using this device because it answers your every question/request, but I don’t think they will enjoy it when they find out that it records your conversations. “To work, the Echo is always listening. Once it hears someone utter a keyword, such as "Alexa," it shares what it hears with Amazon's servers to process a response. Those conversations are then stored indefinitely. Google's Home speaker works in a similar fashion” (Fowler and Anderson) . The authors later mentions that Google has a device with comparable qualities to the Echo. In the article, they also mention that there was a court case in Arkansas about a murder and the police asked for the Echo as evidence. They were able to track the conversations Alexa had recorded and officially charge defendant James Andrew Bates, friend of the victim, as guilty. This goes to show that even if you don’t command Alexa to speak, she is very capable to record you at any time. Carol Becker downloaded the Kindle app to her iPad because she thought it was more convenient than carrying around heavy books. While reading a book she underlined a sentence and it told her that she was one of the 123 people to underline that same sentence. It was shocking to her that the app knew this. “I threw the iPad onto the bed and nearly out the …show more content…
If it didn’t matter, then the United States wouldn’t have created the 4th Amendment in the Constitution. Your privacy should be important to you, everyone needs privacy. You can’t let big corporations and new technology intrude on your right to privacy. In a Ted Talk called “Why Privacy Matters” spokesman Glenn Greenwald stated that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook said “...privacy is no longer a ‘social norm’.” Millions upon millions of people use Facebook, do you really want to be apart of something that doesn’t seem to think privacy is that important, just because it isn’t as common anymore? Part of the reason it isn’t common anymore is because of Facebook itself, this website is one of many that has access to all of your personal information. A lot of people don’t like this at all and want their privacy back, but think a higher power should be responsible for doing so. Americans are speaking with a unified, nonpartisan voice on these matters: A recent poll found that 90% of Americans want the next president to prioritize “protecting privacy so [Americans] have more control over our personal information” (Romero and Bolden) . America, you have your next President! To those 90% of you, speak your mind and he will hear and hopefully listen. In an article called “2016: The Year We Claim Our Privacy Back” written by Theo Priestley he mentions another way we can gain back some of our privacy, a blockchain. “A Blockchain is a
The Amazon Echo named Alexa came out in 2015. People enjoy using this device because it answers your every question/request, but I don’t think they will enjoy it when they find out that it records your conversations. “To work, the Echo is always listening. Once it hears someone utter a keyword, such as "Alexa," it shares what it hears with Amazon's servers to process a response. Those conversations are then stored indefinitely. Google's Home speaker works in a similar fashion” (Fowler and Anderson) . The authors later mentions that Google has a device with comparable qualities to the Echo. In the article, they also mention that there was a court case in Arkansas about a murder and the police asked for the Echo as evidence. They were able to track the conversations Alexa had recorded and officially charge defendant James Andrew Bates, friend of the victim, as guilty. This goes to show that even if you don’t command Alexa to speak, she is very capable to record you at any time. Carol Becker downloaded the Kindle app to her iPad because she thought it was more convenient than carrying around heavy books. While reading a book she underlined a sentence and it told her that she was one of the 123 people to underline that same sentence. It was shocking to her that the app knew this. “I threw the iPad onto the bed and nearly out the …show more content…
If it didn’t matter, then the United States wouldn’t have created the 4th Amendment in the Constitution. Your privacy should be important to you, everyone needs privacy. You can’t let big corporations and new technology intrude on your right to privacy. In a Ted Talk called “Why Privacy Matters” spokesman Glenn Greenwald stated that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook said “...privacy is no longer a ‘social norm’.” Millions upon millions of people use Facebook, do you really want to be apart of something that doesn’t seem to think privacy is that important, just because it isn’t as common anymore? Part of the reason it isn’t common anymore is because of Facebook itself, this website is one of many that has access to all of your personal information. A lot of people don’t like this at all and want their privacy back, but think a higher power should be responsible for doing so. Americans are speaking with a unified, nonpartisan voice on these matters: A recent poll found that 90% of Americans want the next president to prioritize “protecting privacy so [Americans] have more control over our personal information” (Romero and Bolden) . America, you have your next President! To those 90% of you, speak your mind and he will hear and hopefully listen. In an article called “2016: The Year We Claim Our Privacy Back” written by Theo Priestley he mentions another way we can gain back some of our privacy, a blockchain. “A Blockchain is a