#whatisprivacy

me: i want privacy  my parents: 

I think that privacy is very important. However, we cannot expect complete privacy when we upload photos to Facebook, Instagram or any other social media online or even so, a site online. WE are the ones who have a say in privacy. Even when we upload a photo on Facebook with its privacy settings set to “View only to friends” those friends can easily screenshot it or download it and share it publicly. Security definitely has a price, with the way digital age has become part of our lives it is crazy to think we have complete privacy. However, I strongly disagree with the idea of allowing ISPs to sell web browsing data. It is absurd, like the article, “Trump poised to sign away privacy protections for internet users” by the Guardian mentions, why do companies need to know what type of clothes I buy online or where I plan to travel in a few months. When we search for such things, our search engine holds a history and it remains there until we delete the history but the question is does our internet search provider delete it as well? Probably not.

Being part of an online environment class is hard to keep privacy secured. We are posting a video introducing ourselves that is now available to anyone to see. Like one of my fellow classmates said, “anyone who searches us up can now see that video that we had to submit for a class assignment.” While I can make the blog available to those who have a passcode, I will automatically shut classmates out who might want to read it. I think privacy on my blog is important and I think it matters to have certain privacy settings where things can be blocked but at the same time, I know this blog is for this class specifically. That the things that I post are to answer certain questions which most are opinion based and I am okay with putting my opinion out there. However, I will end up deleting it soon after.  

For a class policy, I think having discussion in a canvas is a good way to keep our privacy because a blog has less privacy. Even though we have class discussions I think that using the discussion board on canvas can be helpful to read through people’s thoughts rather than clicking on several links to people’s individual blogs.  However, like I have mentioned this blog is specifically for class and I have heard from other students that they made this blog specifically for class that is different from personal ones so I think that having them does no harm, like my privacy personality test reveals about myself, I like to have privacy but I also know that putting personal information online is at times, a must and its a compromise to take.