Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Privacy

  Now more than ever, online privacy has become a bigger and bigger issue, not just here in the United States but all throughout the world. With each search on Google or post on social media, we create a digital footprint that will live until the end of time. This could affect hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people now and increasingly in the future. As generations like mine that have grown up on the internet


Go in for job interviews and attempt to get jobs, everything we have said or shared online will be available for our employers to see. On one hand, this can be a semi-decent thing because the truly strange or abusive people you will be able to weed out, but the people who may have said or shared something that no longer represents them as a person, either because they 

have changed as a person, or they posted it when they were much younger, and have matured, their digital footprint could still haunt them down the line. The government seems to have been extremely slow and lazy, as the government usually is when it comes to making laws about protecting our online security. In recent years, there has been a push for increased protections, and some have been passed, like the Online Privacy Act of 2023, which was passed by

Congress in April of 2023. Even if the government passes bills to protect us, they are only going to do so much (because they really don’t care). The government will only give us protections when we really start to make a big deal about them invading our

privacy. They may have passed a few bills that protect us from a few things to make it seem like they are helping us, but there are still plenty of issues that they are not addressing, like the government using our license plates to track when and where we are going throughout our day-to-day lives. Like this TED Talk pointed out. As technology keeps getting better, we need to put more and more pressure on the government to limit its surveillance of innocent private citizens.


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