No Privacy, No Humanity
Is America witnessing the end of internet privacy? There are countless reasons why anyone would want to protect their privacy, but the single most important principle is that we have a right to privacy. Seeking privacy on the internet should not make the user feel guilty, the user’s privacy should be expected, and demanded. The reasons might be as simple as preserving your right to express unpopular opinions without being subjected to persecution, communicating sensitive business information, or conducting transactions on internet shopping sites. Privacy belongs to us, contrary to what some governing bodies might want the public to believe. In this digitally connected world we need to step back and look at how much information we share and what steps we could do to stop this invasion of our privacy.
In March 2017, the House of Representatives and the Federal Communications Commission started the process of overturning Net Neutrality Title Two regulations. This Obama-era regulation was intended to protect consumers’ data from being shared with advertisers without consent. The regulation viewed private data as the property of the consumer, but once this regulation has been overturned, consumer data will be viewed as property of the …show more content…
The impact of this and using our private information to buy our connection to the digital world is far reaching. All this information that we have freely given up is stored in databases around the world and it is easily accessible. Curious people with good or bad intentions can find this information freely using open source intelligence tools. Tools like these crawl the internet looking for anything that matches the search parameters. In figure two, a search was performed on a random person and it returned a basic amount of information about the
Is America witnessing the end of internet privacy? There are countless reasons why anyone would want to protect their privacy, but the single most important principle is that we have a right to privacy. Seeking privacy on the internet should not make the user feel guilty, the user’s privacy should be expected, and demanded. The reasons might be as simple as preserving your right to express unpopular opinions without being subjected to persecution, communicating sensitive business information, or conducting transactions on internet shopping sites. Privacy belongs to us, contrary to what some governing bodies might want the public to believe. In this digitally connected world we need to step back and look at how much information we share and what steps we could do to stop this invasion of our privacy.
In March 2017, the House of Representatives and the Federal Communications Commission started the process of overturning Net Neutrality Title Two regulations. This Obama-era regulation was intended to protect consumers’ data from being shared with advertisers without consent. The regulation viewed private data as the property of the consumer, but once this regulation has been overturned, consumer data will be viewed as property of the …show more content…
The impact of this and using our private information to buy our connection to the digital world is far reaching. All this information that we have freely given up is stored in databases around the world and it is easily accessible. Curious people with good or bad intentions can find this information freely using open source intelligence tools. Tools like these crawl the internet looking for anything that matches the search parameters. In figure two, a search was performed on a random person and it returned a basic amount of information about the