Monday, 27 February 2012

Privacy may be not so private.

Privacy is some individual information that a person does not want others know or interfere with. The right of privacy is generally agreed in most of countries, and it is protected by their respective laws. In my opinion, although a person’s privacy is protected, it can also be exposed
without our attention.
Nowadays, people live in the information age where a lot of high technologies exist. There is a famous movie called “Enemy of the State” which stars Will Smith. In this movie, the leading character was monitored by the government, and all of his pen, watch, hand phone, shoes and even clothes were equipped with GPS trackers and detectaphones. His track could be easily followed by the government officers, and all of what he did was known clearly. I think although the technologies in the movie are a little imaginative, but some of them do exist in our life. Our call records can be monitored; our behavior can be recorded by the camera; our current position
can be obtained through mobile phone. Not only can the government use such technologies, but also some ordinary people are good at searching people by using unique method. For example, in China, the “Ren Rou Searching” is very powerful on the internet. If someone posted a provoking article or behaved immorally in a video, somehow, the real identity will be revealed by the netizens. I think this searching sometimes did help find the sinners, but it also violates others’ privacy in a way. It is an illegal behavior, so I do not agree with it.
In sum, people’s privacy sometimes is not so private and individual information maybe exposed by a certain way. I think privacy should be respected more and protected more.

7 comments:

  1. "Privacy maybe not so private"-I think that this idea in your blog is true. With modern technology rapidly developing, keeping our privacy in secret become increasingly difficult;I believe if we pay more attention to our privacy and such modern technologies, we can avoid leaking of our privacy to some degree~

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  2. I think your title is attractive. Yes, in this information age, our personal information may be disclosed to others when we are heedless sometimes. Besides, you mentioned something about "Ren Rou Researching" and I don't think it is a good thing. Although sometimes people can get more information about the corruption of some governors and people who did crimes, the essence of this kind of research is illegal and sometimes it may be out of control.

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  3. Attractive heading. With the development of tachnology, there are less spaces for people to hide their privacy, even themselves. So maybe the more advanced tools will be invented in future.

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  4. I agree with you that keeping privacy is not that easy in modern times. High techologies really threaten our privacy. To protect our privacy, it's important that we should not reveal our secrets on the Internet or somewhere that is not that trustful.

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  5. I agree with you. When we log in renren or maybe earlier, our private information is spread via internet. Living in this information age, we need to be more careful about our safety.

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  6. the Internet is a two-edges sword , the Internet "abuse" can't be avoid,the only thing we can do as a student is trying to respect other's privacy on the Internet.

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  7. That's all the reason that we must be very cautious about our online postings. We have to be responsible for what we say.

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