Privacy

In class we talked about privacy, and what it really meant. I was surprised to learn that websites were achieved. I had no idea that you could go back and look at old websites or things, even if they had been "deleted." This makes me nervous for my privacy online. When our professor showed us the video on how someone could pull up another person's chat on facebook I was a little creeped out. I thought chats were private, but what if other people could read my past chat history? There is nothing that I am worried about, or that someone couldn't read, but that is besides the point. I want what I say online to other people to be private, unless I willingly post something on someones wall on facebook that I know other people will be reading. It also creeps me out that there are ways around everything on the Internet. You may think your password and files stored online are safe, but half the time they aren't My own mother had her identity stolen awhile back when I was younger, and I remember how hard it was for her to fix everything that the criminal had done to her name. They ordered things online with her credit card and started online sites in her name. Now that I am older and understand things more, I can't imagine that happening to me. Privacy is a huge thing to people. If someone doesn't feel like they have privacy then they won't do something, However, the sad thing is that often times people feel like their information is secure when it isn't, and that is what continuously worries me about the Internet. I think we need to find more ways to keep information private for people, including having companies on and off the Internet work harder to keep their customers private information safe.