Question

Your textbook authors argue that the right to privacy seems to be withering away in our society, in part because of: (1) increased government intrusion into private lives; (2) numerous technological innovations like the Internet; and (3) the willingness of individuals to trade some of their right to privacy to get other things. Pick one of these reasons, state whether you agree or disagree, and explain your answer.

Answer 1

Right to privacy is the element of different legal traditions to restrict government as well as private actions that violate the privacy of individuals. The factors evolving with changing time like technology is the biggest reason of violation of an individual’s privacy level. Social media is one of the biggest trending problem for lack of privacy in the society. Technology companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc., provide such a platform for people which not only is used for recreational purposes but also highly affects the privacy level of any individual to a certain level.
Instagram and Facebook are such social media platforms where the youth is highly active with their day to day updates. The technology companies use and collect personal data and work on it. The messaging applications assure that the texts and data is highly encrypted, but the creator and controller of the software has an easy access to all the data. Increasing access to technology and internet is useful and meaningful in a particular way. Individuals themselves have easily served their daily lives at social media platforms and provided easy access to others for intervention.
In a certain way we can say that in desire of anything else, or more precious people risk their individuality and privacy. But to a limited extent, this reason can be applied to a certain group of people who are willing to risk their privacy but not for all.
Government decisions are more from economical point of view and not for violation of individuals privacy. Any decision taken by the government may or may not affect the lives and life styles of certain classes of individuals but it doesn’t intrude the personal space of the individual to a level that the privacy of the people gets harmed.