Do American citizens know that the government and online companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are obtaining personal information, possibly even their exact location? Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Today, privacy is a thing of the past because of all the tracking and eavesdropping that is occurring in the digital age. People unknowingly and knowingly give companies access to their photos, camera, and microphone. The government has no right to any information about a citizen unless that citizen specifically chooses to give the information, and it can only be used for the purpose specified by the citizen. Corporations must not give up personal information about their
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Americans can browse anonymously with Tor. “Tor lets you use the Internet without revealing your IP address or other identifying information. The distributed network works by bouncing your traffic among several randomly selected proxy computers before sending it on to its real destination. Web sites will think you're coming from whichever node your traffic happens to bounce off of last, which might be on the other side of the world” (Cox).Americans can keep their chats private with OTR. “If you use a conventional instant messaging service like those offered by Google, AOL, Yahoo or Microsoft, logs of your chats may be accessible to the NSA through the PRISM program. But a chat extension called OTR (for "off the record") offers "end-to-end" encryption. The server only sees the encrypted version of your conversations, thwarting eavesdropping” (Cox). Americans can make secure calls with Silent Circle. “The conventional telephone network is vulnerable to government wiretapping. And many Internet-based telephony applications, including Skype, are thought to be vulnerable to interception as well.But an Internet telephony application called Silent Circle is believed to be impervious to wiretapping, even by the NSA. Like OTR, it offers "end-to-end" encryption, meaning that the company running the service never has access to your unencrypted calls and can't turn them over to the feds” (Cox). Americans can avoid being tracked by turning off their cellphone or removing their
Americans can browse anonymously with Tor. “Tor lets you use the Internet without revealing your IP address or other identifying information. The distributed network works by bouncing your traffic among several randomly selected proxy computers before sending it on to its real destination. Web sites will think you're coming from whichever node your traffic happens to bounce off of last, which might be on the other side of the world” (Cox).Americans can keep their chats private with OTR. “If you use a conventional instant messaging service like those offered by Google, AOL, Yahoo or Microsoft, logs of your chats may be accessible to the NSA through the PRISM program. But a chat extension called OTR (for "off the record") offers "end-to-end" encryption. The server only sees the encrypted version of your conversations, thwarting eavesdropping” (Cox). Americans can make secure calls with Silent Circle. “The conventional telephone network is vulnerable to government wiretapping. And many Internet-based telephony applications, including Skype, are thought to be vulnerable to interception as well.But an Internet telephony application called Silent Circle is believed to be impervious to wiretapping, even by the NSA. Like OTR, it offers "end-to-end" encryption, meaning that the company running the service never has access to your unencrypted calls and can't turn them over to the feds” (Cox). Americans can avoid being tracked by turning off their cellphone or removing their