Book Inspired Post 1

Privacy is almost a myth now. Privacy plays many different roles. It protects people from public shaming. It helps people feel safe. It gives meaning in our personal life. Now privacy isn't only about individual lives. In this age of capitalism we trust businesses with our valuable information. In return businesses must keep our information secure, hence privacy and security go hand in hand. It used to be that nature's own way of granting privacy in our lives was enough. The physical distance meant that embarrassing rumors In Japan didn't reach America on the other side of the planet. And people's forgetfulness meant that even the biggest scandal would die out over time.

But what did the internet do? It nullified the nature's way of giving us privacy. Any information can reach the other side of the glove in seconds. What's once posted on the internet can never be completely removed. The price we paid for the convienience of having the internet was giving up privacy. Hackers all around the world are successfully invading our privacy, and most times we wouldn't even notice. And even if we are able to trace a hacker down after months and years of investigation, there is another one. We invented the internet and we can't go back, we destroyed privacy and we can't get it back.