week 9 review

Internet privacy has been an issue with users since the very foundation of the internet. While this may has been an issue for many years now, many people don’t seem to understand the problems and trouble they can be putting themselves in by having things as simple as twitter or facebook. If people are careful with the information they put up and monitored what they included in their information rather than publishing their life story then possibly there would be fewer problems for them and society as we know it. But alas people don’t seem to understand this and therefore post multitudes of information that can harm their personal lives. For some people it may only be a small slap on the wrist while others it can mean a loss of a career, potential job or schooling. Many people forget that during the job process their future employers search the candidate’s history to see if there is any history in the person that may not want. Even the most qualified of people make mistakes occasionally but it shouldn’t be on the internet where it remains forever. On the other hand potential identity thieves can do amazing yet horrifying things with the little amount of information that we post online. They no longer need large amounts of information but rather use their skills to attain the extra information that people don’t post online. Over the years there have been some major breaches in privacy been not in a personal level but rather a national level. War documents of the highest levels of security clearance have been leaked as well as less important files pertaining to various government ordeals. Even politicians are getting in trouble over stupid and idiotic decisions on their end that are causing multitudes of problems for them. And no one is above the effects of internet privacy idiocracy as this has been proven again and again. Everyone posts stupid things that should not be allowed for everyone to see from time to time so it is only a matter of time before a US president posts something that can get him in trouble.