Question

Soc 105 w6

Debate It: Take a position on this statement: You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it. Support your views with one or two reasons and/or examples

Answer 1

Although I may agree that in this world of Internet revolution, not much of personal space is actual ‘personal’ with most of our private information knowingly or unknowingly getting ‘Public’, I am still in the view that there is nothing called as ‘zero privacy’. It’s you who choose to compromise with it in most of the cases, and generally I happens in an inadvertent manner. Such factors may be our ignorance of exploiting certain channels of media, trusting the sources that are not actually to be trusted or being tricked by someone. For example, if I share my ATM PIN with my best friend and over a period of time, if I end up breaking my relationship with him/her, my friend may just trick me and go ahead operating my net banking accounts, if I have also shared the username and passwords with my friend and not altered it till date. On the other side, I end up visiting a phishing website due to my ignorance and share all my private details on that website. Even in that case, I am myself compromising upon my privacy. Besides, there are ways to even expose me otherwise to the privacy issues such as if my health information records are hacked from the Hospital’s system where I have had my details stored.

However, there are still some ways to keep my privacy intact. Although it may sound challenging, but using internet very less or at least judiciously, may help me deal with it. Besides, being more watchful with my surrounding and society, my relationships, my trusted circle of friends, etc., or the kind of videos or details that I share with the public of social media sites, the type of anti-virus software that I use in my system that connects me to any external drives or to internet medium, etc., shall certainly help me protect my privacy.