Online Warnings

In her article George Orwell…Meet Mark Zuckerberg, Lori Andrews discusses the privacy issue on internet. The issue involving Data aggregators that hack into our internet and use our personal information to sell to larger cooperation’s so they can advertise items to us. In this Article Andrews argues against the idea of cooperation’s going through someone personal internet history on what they have researched on and to use that information as a database for describing that person, creating another life on the internet. Andrews claims that if you were to get a loan, a job, a house or a credit card it would now work on web lining basically what you have put on your digital self, rather than your credit history it would depend on things like

How many Facebook friends do you have, and how many of those friends have you spoken to in the past week, month, or even year? Are there any people that you follow on Instagram whom you’ve never introduced yourself to? The answers may come as a surprise. The use of social media makes it effortless to connect with friends and family. However, it also allows us to to catch a glimpse the lives of those we’re never met. Depending on how much information is shared on one’s profile, it can allow a person to determine enough about them to consider them a friend. Conversely, those people who have never met you have access to all of your information that you allow “friends” on Facebook to see. This is an alarming discovery, especially considering that the concept of “catfishing” (creating a fake profile online and pretending to be someone

Keeping our privacy conceal limits the government's power. As more information about us is public, the more transparent your life is. That visible information can affect your social status and reputation, and that information can be use as leverage over us. In life, you meet people and develop an opinion on them, but if someone were to view some information about you and develop an opinion about you before meeting you, it can diminish future synergies in everyday life. When people figure out your weaknesses via privacy leaks and start harassing or threatening you, it can lead to cyber bullying.

very easy to share information with other people and prove who you are electronically, or

According to an online source regarding internet fraud, “tax identification numbers, Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, fingerprints, and similar private and confidential information are now more accessible than ever before” (Saunders). Identity theft is a matter of the lack of security that technology provides and the failure of people to use it safely. With social media at its peak, outsiders can stalk unsecured profiles online and know complete biographies in minutes. An estimated 40,000 people in the United States fall victim to crimes like identity theft every year (Saunders). This high number is most likely due to the lack of precautionary measures taken by people when using technology and the failure of the government to prevent such crimes.

Adolescents need to know this information so they don't go off an ruin their life by having a baby while they are in their teens or catching a disease because they

Hackings, gossip, any number of things can destroy the fragile glass we put up around ourselves to conceal our innermost secrets. Really, it's quite sad how vulnerable we make ourselves to attack through how much information we display, thinking it will remain 'private'. Privacy is a lovely theory, but not always an easy one to uphold. Our information, the conversations we have in confidence with other people, the very basic right we think we have to not have our personal lives exposed to the world, it’s all at very high risk, all the time. So much can go wrong so fast, leaving us like turtles without shells; exposed and

The Internet has informative information that can be helpful for researching. It also has the potential of putting someone’s personal life on public display and humiliating them.

If an individual does not want their personal information on the internet, they are allowed to not have such information circulate the internet without their own consent. See Lake v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 582 N.W.2d 231 (Minn. 1998) (citing Restatement (Second) of Torts §652B).

Every time you go online you are creating a history of your personal finances, site history, health problems and even sexual preferences. From there for the majority of cases someone, somewhere in the world is then creating an online profile about you without your consent.

Phishers with identity theft on their minds can do a whole lot of damage with seemingly small amounts of information. When you fill out a credit card application, for example, you typically need a handful of things: your Social Security number, your current address and your occupation, to name a few. Those types of things are easy to obtain once a phisher has gained access to one of your online accounts. Before you know it, a bunch of credit cards with your name on them could be sent out into the wrong hands.

as someone they’re not, in order to get closer to children and teens online, and lure them to

work, fun and even when we are simply bored. The amount of the personal information

The ability to see other’s pictures, comments, and other personal information, makes privacy a major issue. People no longer have private lives, because everybody post his personal information on the internet,

Imagine the era of Adam and Eve; even they were not spared for their personal secrets of life at that age. As a result we can’t even imagine the state of affairs in today’s life. More so personal data these days have become so important that for all types of decision making the same is being utilized. Say for getting a loan, a license or for that matter a job, the personal and professional information of the individual for checking the reputation is from the info available on the net. The government so makes use of the same while investigating the individuals, be it at the airports or for any other investigations that they may have. All this is being done without ascertaining the correctness of the data about the individual that is available on the net. As a result we are all virtually