The reading “The End of Privacy’ touched on a subject very similar to a recent news article that I read that Facebook and Twitter are the most insecure websites on the Internet. In relation to the fact that Facebook and Twitter are the most insecure, the sentence that stuck with me the most from the article was, “With the Internet, anybody can reach a global audience.” This statement by Solove is very profound and correct. Both Facebook and Twitter allow you to post things in an instant in which anyone can view if the privacy settings are not changed. There was even one point where Google would pay several celebrities to just mention Google in their tweet and they would be paid several thousand dollars. With the ‘Trending Topics’ section on Twitter, it searches the most used words in tweets worldwide. There your tweet is broadcast and furthermore others can click on your profile to view it. Also, Facebook and Twitter statuses are fed into Google’s database and when searched correctly you can find someone’s status. I agree with Solove in that we are a ‘Google Generation’ because we use Google for everything and can access a lot of things through it. Solove makes a great point that privacy has not ended and should not end, but it just needs to be reformatted. Whether it’s how the government and how it accesses the public’s information or how privacy settings are worked it is something that needs to be changed. We do not want to become a country like China where everything we may ever text our post on the Internet is viewed or accessed.
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