We live in pretty interesting times . We’ve seen a lot of changes in the way society looks at certain things . Yesterday’s taboos are today’s accepted practices. This is especially true in North America. The racial equality is now higher than ever and the same applies to women in work places.
The IT sector had a major influence on many of these cultural shifts. Electronic storage and data extraction from huge depositories of information facilitated many tedious tasks. In the past you had to manually search for a paper “entry”. Now the desired information is 2 clicks away. Things like medical records, bills and other important documents are stored digitally which prevents data loss due to fires.
But this is where things get complicated. Hackers might attempt to break into these archives from the comfort of their own home. It makes our personal information vulnerable to rogue attacks. Because where there is a lock there will always be a key.
It’s scary, but it doesn’t mean we should revert back to stone age. There are many examples of how technology can help regular people access large databases. Let’s take number-private-search.com/516/504/ as an example.
This service allows you to get details about the person to whom a particular telephone number belongs. Potential benefits of this service are amazing. If a person is being bombarded with phone calls from a particular telemarketing company he can reverse lookup their number and send an official letter to their address. You can also discover who is that annoying individual who is placing silent phone calls.
Unfortunately this innocent service can be used in a bad way.
A sexual predator also knows how to use reverse lookups. An unsuspecting individual might share the phone number with a stranger who will use it for all the wrong reasons.
Sometimes there is a really thin line between danger and convenience. There are no easy answers when it comes to privacy.
Every single individual should be able to express his opinion. We as people should be the ones dictating what can and cannot be disclosed. Our expressions of freedom are like small grains which are easy to lose but hard to get back. Our children might one day find themselves in a complete privacy nightmare. If ever that level of privacy violation is reached it would be extremely hard to change anything. I think that every privacy bill should pass through the smallest levels of senate in order to satisfy people’s privacy needs.

