Thursday, October 2, 2008

There is no more privacy online?

I agree that there is no more privacy online due to several reasons.

The first and the most important reason is there is insufficient of cyber law. The lack of strict enforcement of related law will increase cyber crimes. For example, people can forward spam easily and website providers use cookies to collect user's information. However, there is no action can be taken to penalize all those who do not abide the rules.

Secondly, there is lack of control in information flow. Internet is a virtual world with no boundaries, so even a small update on the website can be browsed by anyone at anytime and anywhere. For example, in Facebook, when we make changes in our profile such as relationship status or our birthday date, there will be notifications show on the website and other users will know about it.

Lastly, there are a lot of non- ethical incidents occur online. There are a lot of unknown online users can access to Internet. For example, hackers can hack into other user's personal account to get details such as password. This will lead hackers to create a fake identity to get other user's personal information.

As a conclusion, I strongly believe that there is no more privacy online because there is insufficient of cyber law, lack of control in information flow and there are a lot of non-ethical incidents occur online.

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