Privacy 2.0, The beginning of no privacy?

In our present day we live beside computers, not above them, beside them literary. I was taught in school from an early age how to be “Proficient” when using one but what they didn’t teach me is how monitor the privacy setting on it so that any joe off the street could hack into the computer I was using and see everything I’ve done on it and probably more some. Now to be clear computers are not limited to your at home PC or Mac laptop, they are found in your phone, your car, your child’s tablet, even in your credit cards there is a computer chip in there too. I found this video where this guy is interviewing a man that attends ,every year, this convention of hackers and government associates that work in the hacking of computers and privacy and how the mission of these conventions are to enlighten the public on how easily they are vulnerable to cyber attacks. CAUTION: this video does contain some strong language due to its unprofessional nature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq3_7ahmjJY

So how can you keep yourself safe against criminals that want to spy and use your data? Well you could seek further education and become an expert into how computers work or just google how to avoid having your information stolen on computers but there is more to it than just that. Websites collect your data without you even knowing about when you use them. Ever care to read that twenty page document that pops up when you first use some software or a website called the “term and conditions” ? Inside that legally binding document is a contract that you sign when you click you’ve read it, which allows them to do whatever they want almost since you agreed to it. It almost begs the question is there such a thing as privacy anymore let alone a new form of it called privacy 2.0? Yes you have curtains and doors on your house that block people from looking in but if spy movies have taught us anything, that is if someone want to listen in or look in on you they’ll find a way. Maybe the only true privacy we can fathom now is if one were to move to the last frontier, Alaska or some other extremely out of the way place, but then again there are satellites looking down at you and if you don't think there is just go to google maps, and in street view you can find a picture of your house.

In some of my other classes such as Voice and Civility in Public Discourse we have been studying Edward Snowden and how he has blown up the discussion and attention toward privacy and how the US government was ignoring the fourth amendment when it collected billions of data on its citizens with them knowing about it. From these other classes I have gotten a somewhat of a background to how privacy works today; however I’m not sure if anyone really has it all together when they talk about privacy because the tools in which it is broken are constantly being updated. I had almost no knowledge of metadata or how privacy is viewed today before I came to college this semester but after finding out more about it, it can be pretty scary to think about not knowing who’s listening in on your phone or computer’s webcam. So that begs the question, Is privacy 2.0 the era of no privacy?
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