Tracking Is An Assault On Liberty By Nicholas Carr

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

Several weeks after the horrible terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act was rushed through Congress by Attorney General, John Ashcroft. This particular Act, however, was established with a ruling hand of fear. Life for Americans changed dramatically in those immediate days, weeks, and months after the attack. America had been spoiled with luxury for so long, that the illusion of control had ingrained itself into our very nature as Americans. That act of terror, on September 11, 2001, brought that belief crashing down, almost immediately. Fear and anger were rampant though out America; a dangerous

So many users of the internet blindly browse and post on these sites without any thought to the online identity they are creating for themselves. Shares, tweets, hashtags, likes, and comments all combine to make up an amalgamation of marketable information. In November of 2016, an average of six thousand tweets were made per second, and ninety-five million Instagram posts were made per day (Sayce; Parker). Facebook “has become the largest database of personal information ever collected,” says Richard, and Facebook takes advantage of this. With almost two billion users, Facebook has no shortage of information to gather (Sparks). They do this mainly for targeted advertising. There is no small profit to be made in this. In 2011 Lori Andrews wrote, “Facebook made $3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year, 85% of it's total revenue.” However, Facebook and other internet corporations also relay data gathered on users to the

Harper ultimately places the blame for the average American's loss of privacy on Cookies. " Cookies are a surreptitious threat to privacy the way smoking is a surreptitious threat to health."(7) Because Cookies are so secretive, people do not know what their actual usage is. They are used to "customize a visitor's experience"(5) and " gather information about users"(5) by storing the web sites one uses into text files. A solution Harer comes up with for the use of Cookies is browsers will reject third party cookies that the user does not allow to use. Also, that consumers will better understand both the pros and cons to cookies and how they choose to handle their web surfing.

A website places a cookie on your computer to remember certain data so it may run smoother when you return to the site, some government’s collect data to collect data for national security, Google can also collect data to send to marketing companies.

Whether we realize it or not, every movement that we make on the internet is being tracked and can somehow be traced back to us. Unfortunately, most internet users do not understand how tracking works. With this, they also fail to realize their lives are being watched by multiple people, all thanks to one simple thing called tracking. With everyday internet usage increasing, our online privacy is slowly decreasing. Keeping this in mind, the question that we all need to ask ourselves is, how much of our online lives are being affected because of tracking?

Criminals hide their own identity online; they can also steal yours -- or at least

Whenever you are talking about privacy on the internet it is something that can't be taken lightly. With one click all of your information is put into a network, and you never know who’s hands it could end up in. First you must always question if a page needs your information. Why would they need to know who you are? Second, if you do happen to give them your information you must also consider where that information will go or end up.

The novella, The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross and the novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow both present the readers with the issues and impact of surveillance upon the main characters. The surveillance exists in each separate work of fiction for different reasons, but reasons which are actually identical at their core. In The Concrete Jungle, the surveillance cameras originated out of a need for security, and related to that, feelings of fear and desire for protection. Thus, one could argue, in this novella, the need for surveillance arose out of something very organic and common, something which unites all humans: a desire for security. In society today, places of extreme importance, such as banks, government buildings, museums, office buildings and expensive homes these places all have surveillance cameras stemming from a healthy need to keep these structures safe. The Concrete Jungle represents a warping of this desire as the UK is blanketed in surveillance cameras and demonstrates a healthy need gone twisted. The Concrete Jungle and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, while distinct in style and content, both portray the struggle of the individual in maintaining identity against extremely evolved forms of surveillance.

There are many ways to persuade others. The New Abolitionism by Chris Hayes, Elegy for The Country's Seasons by Zadie Smith, and Why Privacy Matters by Glenn Greenwald are all well written, but the most convincing of them is Greenwald's Why Privacy Matter. Evidence of why the Greenwald's writing is most convincing can be seen in his tone, style of writing, and language.

The words, “Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say” were said by Edward Snowden who is a computer professional in America. Similarly, the essays “Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty,” “Web Users Get as Much as They Give,” and “Facebook Is Using You” from Nicholas Carr, Jim Harper, and Lori Andrews respectively points out that the internet privacy is good and bad. However, the articles by Carr and Andrews are based on the negative side of the internet privacy, which means that the internet privacy is not good. On the other hand, Harper’s article is based on the positive side of the internet privacy, which means that the internet privacy is good and scary, but people need to be careful of their own information and browsing histories, and websites. Jim Harper’s essay is more relevant and reasonable than the Nicholas Carr and Lori Andrews’s essays. However, Harper seems more persuasive to readers because he believes that the internet is good if people use it in a right way, whereas Carr and Andrews believe that the internet is not good at all.

The concern about privacy on the Internet is increasingly becoming an issue of international dispute. ?Citizens are becoming concerned that the most intimate details of their daily lives are being monitored, searched and recorded.? (www.britannica.com) 81% of Net users are concerned about threats to their privacy while online. The greatest threat to privacy comes from the construction of e-commerce alone, and not from state agents. E-commerce is structured on the copy and trade of intimate personal information and therefore, a threat to privacy on the Internet.

Internet privacy is the security of a user’s personal data that is stored or published on the internet. The internet is an important part of every individual’s daily life. In today’s society, the internet is used by many different people for many reasons. It can be used for research, communication, and purchasing items. Without the internet, many things that are completed during the course of a day would be impossible or take time to complete. As people use the internet, everything is stored in a database that tracks and keeps any personal information that is entered by users. As users continue to use the internet to complete important tasks such as purchasing items and paying bills, their privacy and security become at risk. Although the internet can be seen to have a positive impact on society, it does have a negative impact. Since the internet can be accessed by anybody it can cause a lot of damage. Examples of internet risk include identity thieves, phasing, and scams. Due to things such as online shopping, banking and other e-commerce options, personal information is stored in the internet enabling many cybercrimes to occur. Cybercrimes are very similar to any regular crime; the crime just happens to take place on websites for criminals to hack and steal user’s information for their own personal benefit. Cybercriminals tend to attack users based on their emails, social media accounts, and web history because the most history about an individual is stored in those sites.

For example, although most sites claim privacy is at a premium, it 's still possible to hack these sites. And the government is well-aware of these sites and are more than ready to jump on anyone that they can find using them. The privacy tools may help keep you safe for a period of time, but it 's almost assured that you will eventually get caught.

Privacy concerns on the web have become an undesirable consequence that people face with cyber technology. The ability of computers to gather and store unlimited amount of information from the internet raises privacy issues concerning an individual’s informational privacy. A person’s right to informational privacy is the ability to control the flow of their personal information, including the transfer and exchange of that information. An invasion of informational privacy denies people the right to control who accesses their personal information. Many internet users are unaware that they are more likely to compromise their privacy when using the internet services such as search engines and social networking sites. The internet provides access to an incredible amount of information from all over the world. Some internet users use the internet exclusively as a source of information while other internet users use the internet to create and disseminate information for others to use. However, the vast amount of information floating on the internet would not