Essay On Privacy

Protecting privacy is considered an essential human right, crucial and important to the protection of liberty. Although privacy is such a massive part of our lives, today’s technology is threatening the safety and privacy of many people (Rotenberg). Cell phones, social media, government, and other forms of technology threaten the lives of many both in their personal life and their life in the workplace (Lazar). We must start to consider ways to help protect privacy more efficiently to protect the lives of people all across the globe. The protection of privacy has many different “dimensions” or parts. Privacy is typically also associated with dignity, trust, and liberty. The many ways that privacy is threatened all lead to one thing which is

Computers, cell phones and other devices affect and threaten privacy in ways that cannot be controlled. According to Jeffrey Rosen, “as reading, writing, health care, shopping, sex and gossip increasingly take place in cyberspace, it is suddenly dawning on us that the most intimate details of our lives are being monitored, searched, recorded and stored.” Internet “cookies” are electronic footprints allowing websites to access some of our personal information as well as watch and monitor our online movements, such as other websites we have accessed, by the search terms we enter, and articles we read (Rosen). The vast expansion of the internet is the result of the monitoring of private life and information. Much of this information is being exposed to colleagues, friends, and even complete strangers (Rosen). Different forms of technology include security cameras, hidden cameras, microphones and other listening devices to monitor different situations and hear into private communications. This is a clear violation of one’s privacy. Three main characteristics of technology are amplification, routinization and sublimation. “Amplification refers to the ability of technology to extend the ability to gather private information, routinization is the actual process of making intrusion into private life and sublimation is the means by which a technique for privacy invasion becomes increasingly difficult to detect” (Rotenberg). Not too long ago, actress, Jennifer Lawrence’s leaked photos were all over the internet. Although these photos were scandalous, her privacy was threatened by an unwanted stranger hacking into her iPhone’s “iCloud” account and leaked these nude photos. Celebrity’s lives are also affected by paparazzi who every day, follow these celebrities and take photos and leak them. From a recent interview about the paparazzi harassing her, she exclaimed; “I knew the paparazzi