Loss Of Privacy Analysis

Personally, I believe privacy plays a very important role in life, and that as humans we are entitled to it. Privacy helps us to define who we are in life, and what we want to do. It is when we feel safe to explore our inter being, and figure out who we are as a person. We feel safe with privacy to make comments, and take actions that cannot be judged by others, as they have no access to it. Under no supervision we feel at ease as humans, and free to make our own choices, no matter what people think. Our privacy enables us to make an idea up, think about, and then decide what we truly want to do without the pressure of knowing what others think. However, when we lose this privacy, we begin to lose who we are. Our ideas, thoughts, and actions all stop reflecting who we truly are, and start to show the person society wants you to be. The constant …show more content…
Greenwald in his Ted Talk tells us this point:” Mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective than brute force could ever be” Mr. Greenwald hammers home the problem with surveillance right here. As humans we are afraid of what will happen if express ourselves because we are afraid someone is watching. We then force ourselves to conform to society, therefore living like a puppet of ourselves. If you did not think someone was watching would you act differently? More often than not you would be a different person. It’s like a person among their friends versus their boss. Same person in both situations, yet one is a fake side that is professional, while the other is relaxed, and expressive. If we as a people continue to allow our privacy to be stripped away from us, how will we ever be able to express our selves truly? I hope that in the future we can as a society take back what is rightfully ours, our privacy because without it, we will lose who we truly