Privacy Vs Ebay

The issue(s) raised by networked computers is simple enough to grasp, billions of computers, networks, and people linked in groups of millions (perhaps billions) all around the world. The shear scope of it is difficult to grasp, the idea of your information being stored somewhere far away, maybe in the US or in India or China; questions of privacy have been raised since the beginning of the tech boom two decades ago. Perception is one anomaly, sitting at the computer, people do not often realize they have been hacked or are being spied upon, like how the government taps phones and reads emails, it all paints an unsavory picture in your head. In personal experience I have never been ‘hacked’ or to a certain extent I have never been aware of
Privacy is a right, but the churning of the GDP is what makes the entire world click safely. In an article from 2009 on privacy by Andrew Blumberg and Peter Eckersley they stated in the opening paragraph that “over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people’s movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life.” The article is now six years old, yet its statement does not seem a “decade” off but feels much more of a reality; the world is concerned by: Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook Snapchat, and Instagram, all of these apps broadcast to the world a persons movements, habits and personal attitudes to the entire world (under a thin veil of privacy offered in the form of ‘private’ accounts & etc.) In a Vanity Fair article from just two years ago, Nancy Jo Sales
Blumberg and Eckersley were right when they stated that “We can’t stop the cascade of new location-based digital services.” (Blumberg, Eckersley 2) Just think about the people finders, ancestry.com, and the myriad of other sites that find people for you with just the simplest of information. The benefits are broad, but Blumberg and Eckersley further articulated is that “privacy” needs to be “part of their original design” (Blumberg and Eckersley 3). All key, but creating those types of systems is difficult and costly, then what to do about technology that does not “collect the data in the first place” (Blumberg and Eckersley 3). It sounds superfluous as the said in that same article, but it is possible, they cited: “Automated tolling and stoplight enforcement; Location-based search; transit passes and access cards.” Blumberg and Eckersley 3-5) Their conclusion was bittersweet, privacy should be in the hands of “democratic action and lawmaking” (Blumberg and Eckersley 8) but there should be means taken in “building and deploying location date infrastructure… do not surrender the locational privacy of users simply for expediency.” (Blumberg and Eckersley 8). There is a lot of date in the world, however it does not all need to be gathered and