Privacy and the Internet

Privacy and the Internet Robert Wright wrote an essay featured in Time Magazine on October 19, 1998. The essay was called “Sin in the Global Village” and it focuses on personal privacy in cyberspace. The Internet is a rapidly growing web of information that more and more people are using. The benefits are for instance immediate access to information from all around the world, electronic mail that arrive at a blink of an eye, being able to …

…be monitoring your every move in the same way that someone could follow you on your way to work. But what good would that do? Somehow I think the people that should worry are the people that are doing illegal things over the net and that seems justified to me. This reminds me of something my host parents told me when I went to high school in Maryland that applies to Internet users: “Be responsible”.