Is True Privacy A Thing Of The Past?
Judy Ramsook
April 13, 2006
When I first started surfing the internet, I was ecstatic. Little did I realise how much information was out there in cyberspace. It was amazing, a person could search for just about anything he or she wanted to learn more about, and it can be found. All with the few strokes on one’s keyboard, a click of the mouse and an internet connection.
As time wore on, and the computer and the internet came pretty much common place, little by little internet users began realising that their valuable journeys into cyberspace were being monitored. Something which may make one wonder, is true privacy a thing of the distant past?
No matter where one goes or what he does, some one, somewhere is watching. If he is online, some group is monitoring that, if he sends an email out of the country Home Land Security is checking that for terrorist activity, same thing if some one from another country sends him an email.
If some one is using an instant message program, his activities there are being watched as well. Something which is understandable considering the many news stories of pedophiles, child molesters and such.
All one has to do in such a chatroom is create a unique screen name and he or she can say anything he likes to the person he is chatting with, be it truth or lie. Where does that leave internet users who are not engaged in such heinous activities?
Sad to say, but we are all being monitored. With six billion people on the planet and counting, everyday people the world over are purchasing computers and gaining internet access.
People who do not own computers are logging on through internet cafes and public libraries. So since it can be difficult to pinpoint the good internet users from the bad, everyone is being watched.
The internet is fantastic medium. It is so fantastic that persons who grew up in the internet age probably wonder how their ancestors could have survived without it, but has it also become the world’s number one way of keeping up with what everyone does, be they good or bad?
As time wore on, and the computer and the internet came pretty much common place, little by little internet users began realising that their valuable journeys into cyberspace were being monitored. Something which may make one wonder, is true privacy a thing of the distant past?
No matter where one goes or what he does, some one, somewhere is watching. If he is online, some group is monitoring that, if he sends an email out of the country Home Land Security is checking that for terrorist activity, same thing if some one from another country sends him an email.
If some one is using an instant message program, his activities there are being watched as well. Something which is understandable considering the many news stories of pedophiles, child molesters and such.
All one has to do in such a chatroom is create a unique screen name and he or she can say anything he likes to the person he is chatting with, be it truth or lie. Where does that leave internet users who are not engaged in such heinous activities?
Sad to say, but we are all being monitored. With six billion people on the planet and counting, everyday people the world over are purchasing computers and gaining internet access.
People who do not own computers are logging on through internet cafes and public libraries. So since it can be difficult to pinpoint the good internet users from the bad, everyone is being watched.
The internet is fantastic medium. It is so fantastic that persons who grew up in the internet age probably wonder how their ancestors could have survived without it, but has it also become the world’s number one way of keeping up with what everyone does, be they good or bad?
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