Foot - You're Leaving a Digital Trail - What about Privacy?

You're Leaving a Digital Trail - What about Privacy? was a great article, especially since I got rid of my personal Facebook because I wanted more privacy. The very last quote of the article scared me a little, "For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,” Dr. Malone said. “In some sense we’re becoming a global village. Privacy may turn out to have become an anomaly (Malone)”. I don't really want to become part of a "global village"; I like my privacy.

Of course, technology is a very useful, “'There are so many uses for this technology — from marketing to war fighting...'says Steve Steinberg, a computer scientist who works for an investment firm in New York"; he goes on to say, "'that I can’t imagine it not pervading our lives in just the next few years'”(Steinberg ¶ 7). Just this past year there were a plethora of stories about Facebook privacy issues , but did we stop using Facebook? Hardly. We, as a society, are becoming more and more willing to let go of our privacy and so Mr. Steinberg is correct in saying Technology will pervade out lives...but my thought on the matter is that we have let technology pervade our lives and we willing let go of privacy in order to be more "connected".