Blog #9

I, personally, am mixed on concern when it comes to privacy. I think national security is more important than the comfortability of the individual, but businesses and online companies should not have access to people without them knowing. It also makes me uncomfortable that if I'm looking at particular website or product on my phone, the next few weeks I will get constant advertisements popping up on my phone that are from that same website I visited. It's one thing to protect our country from terrorist attacks through the PATRIOT Act, but another for random corporations to have access to our personal information. I have never really done much to protect my privacy, as far as digitally I'm not completely sure how I would go about doing so, but I plan on researching new ways to to protect myself virally. Some people are very into social media, and just want as many "followers" as possible, often not caring whether they've ever met those people they are followed by. That, in my opinion, is up to those people, they get to decide what they share with the world, and can even regulate those who follow them. Social media is also a choice, no one is required to join social media, and when you decide to sign up for a social media page, you should be aware of the risks of exposing yourself and your personal life to the world. I honestly don't care about "big brother," if the government is interested in how often I check the scores of Boston Celtic's games or watch "The Office," on Netflix, that's not gonna be met with much pushback from me. I understand why that makes so many people uncomfortable, and I think their should be regulations on what and who the government should have access to, I don't see it as as big of a problem as other people.