While having a right to privacy is not its own right in the Constitution, it is implied in many of the amendments. Despite this, I really do wonder if we actually do have any sense of privacy. With the latest technology, our phones know everything about us. When I first wake up in the morning, I check my phone to see what time it is. By doing this, it knows when I wake up and sends that information to some database. The same thing goes for when I don’t touch my phone for over eight hours. My phone interprets that as me going to sleep. Everytime I look something up, I get ads for something similar for weeks later. My phone knows everything about me and I just let it happen. We all do. It’s actually pretty terrifying if you think about it.
How can we protect our privacy? I really do not know the answer to that. Nowadays people are so reliant on technology, we practically ask for it to know everything about us. The only answer I can give to that question is probably the most basic one: be careful what you put into your phone. But without putting a lot of information about yourself into an app, you cannot really use it for all of its features. So even then that really is not an answer. In this case, the real question is: do you want privacy or technology?
The only things we can do is make sure that we only get reliable applications for our phone and are connected to reliable networks. Especially when we put in extremely important information into our phones or laptops, such as banking information. As technology advances, this issue will only get worse. People will get smarter with technology, and our privacy will decrease more than it already has. So if you’re not scared now about your phone listening to you and knowing everything about you, you will be.
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