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Personal Privacy Analysis

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Although an individual’s privacy should be protected, most people should consider taking measures into their own hands because of the possibilities of strict laws the government may impose on your freedom. I believe it should be deeply considered to practice safeguarding your own privacy, making it a priority to protect your glass house. In today's society, many people have opened their world to the public, allowing for all to see. By doing so, we have also raised concerns from our selected leaders, questioning our ability to protect the glass house we advertise. What I am trying to express is our government has already implemented strict laws to protect our privacy; let’s do our part to further protect our freedom to expose our world to others. …show more content…

We are all fully aware of the government and their role in the decision making process of our nation. When it comes to the politics of this great nation we live in, the United States of America, I can openly say I believe we are divided by our beliefs. Many people believe in one thing while others believe in another. I believe the government should not intervene on one’s personal business. When you look at laws and why they have been implemented, it makes me …show more content…

I think we can all agree the intranet and other providers have given us many tools we can utilize to protect our identities and other private affairs. I find protection to be a vital tool; it may be in the forms of physical, verbal, intellectual, and in this case cyber. Many users new and old have been at least slightly educated of the dangers of the cyber world. There are tools on just about every website or web-page you visit which allow you to set up protection options. In today's educational system children are being educated on the dangers the cyber world has to offer. For others who may not be computer savvy, they can find free classes to help assist with their future adventure of the cyber world. Once you have taken this newly learned information and applied it to your cyber world, you can start off slow and limit the amount of information you make public. It is like your own personal house; you have installed window blinds or curtains to keep outsiders from looking in and as you become comfortable with your house you sometimes open them to let the sunlight of the world enter, brightening up your day. Jeff Jarvis writes, “it is vital we protect its openness and its power against censorship born of tyranny or over regulation born of the fear of the new” (Jarvis 431). The way I see it is the government lacks the knowledge of openness. The day a politician

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