Google Right To Privacy

In order to acquire the use of Google’s many convenient services, users are required to create a Google account which includes freely giving up data such as phone numbers, birth dates, credit card information, and maybe even a photo. By placing all of this information anywhere on the internet, it becomes public. As a result of our data being publicized and our rights being compromised: there us a lard uproar being built within the social media community that will define privacy for years to come. The right to privacy—a right that everyone deserves, has recently been compared to our very ow civil rights. Many people have said that they should all be held and respected equally. Righteously said in the same article by Richards and Hartzog: “Thinking …show more content…
Americans have the ability to stand up against these massive problems, and especially to at least stand up to Google who is one of the most active members of this community. Richards and Hartzog make another fantastic contrasting point in saying “Yet there us a problem wit5h this view of the digital world, and it is a problem of power. In the digital economy, the real power is not held by individual consumers and citizens using their smartphones and laptops to navigate the twists and turns of their lives, but by the large government and corporate entities who monitor them” (Richards and Hartzog 1182). All people should have the right to their own privacy. I can clearly see why the government would want access to as much information as possible, but that information should not then be sold nor exploited by corporations through advertising, just as Google does and continues to …show more content…
Some people may say that the surveillance placed upon consumers is normal; and that it happens to everyone so it must be okay. While seeing these people react in this way, completely ignorant to the world around them, I watch in awe. I do this because people in America are so unaware of the negative effects of actually creating that Google account or posting their entire lives on a social media profile. There is not enough light being shed on this issue, whether it is being ignored in the news, looked over in books, or forgotten on websites, and so on. People are not doing enough to educate themselves or save themselves from this major downfall in our society. This is such an important topic that should be discussed by many, but is not. It seems that there are very few who are genuinely concerned when compared. In an article written by Judith Resnik entitled; Arbitration, Transparency, and Privatization: Diffusing Disputes: The Public in the Private of Arbitration, the Private of Courts, and the Erasure of Rights, she addresses the court’s stance on all of this and makes it clear that the problems caused by shady terms of service agreements are of their concern: “But in the context of the mandated arbitration the Court has not exercised its obligation to analyze the alternatives and assess their quality” (Resnik 2809). This