Government regulations, politics, laws and attitudes regarding technology and technologies effect on innovation

The following is the Websters dictionary definition of Privacy:

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1 a: the quality or state of being apart from company or observation : seclusion b: freedom from unauthorized intrusion; one's right to privacy
2archaic : a place of seclusion
3 a: secrecy b: a private matter : secret


It today's modern world we are all head over heels with the idea of keeping our information and personal matters private. While many applications are made to ensure our privacy, things still leak. Cell phones have become and increasingly amazing way of passing information to one another and also for accessing many institutions where private information is held such as banks, credit card accounts, email inbox's and many many more. Even with the privacy protection in place people are being fraudulently attacked everyday. Our own technological advances have led to our own private demise.

As the phones get smarter and more capable, so too, do the people that use them and the hackers that thrive off of invading others personal information. It can be information as simple as a text message that is meant for the eyes of only one individual that can get leaked and will spread like wild fire through the halls of a gossipy high school, thus ruining the life of the individual involved. More and more information is shared each day through this "thumb tribe", as my mother refers to it, generation. The newest fad has become "sexting" which is extremely private, yet shared over and over again. It takes only an instant to send an indecent picture that will remain known forever if it by chance falls into the wrong hands.

Even with the majority of phones having the ability to be locked by password, these leaks occur. Passwords can be guessed and broken through almost instantly these days. How do we go about securing ourselves from outside intruders when it is us that readily makes the information available to those hackers? Will we ever be to a place where we are "in a state of being apart from company or observation? I don't believe we ever will be and actually, I believe we were closer to the definition of privacy before all of the technological advances took place. So along with our development I feel we need to become accustomed to the idea that the information we share through our cell phones can and most likely will be accessed by others we wish not to have access to it. It is a part of advancement that we must face.