The rights to privacy is not only a human right but also a general law in many countries. Take the recent phone hacking scandal and how many people have been though the courts in order to get some sort of prosecution for those involved, as well as the newspaper shut down from this illegal activity. Yet in 2014 are we giving up our own rights to privacy with the way that we reveal our lives on the internet and other people, not even to mention the world of the celebrity where their everyday lives are plastered over the over’s of Heat and OK! everyday while its normal folk are reliving out lives on twitter as if it was a page from OK!.
In the past the closet people would get to their lives being displayed in this way was only neighbourhood gossip that made people hate their lives. Now we seem to be able to enjoy putting out lives and problems out for people to read about and offer up their unwanted advice. Personally myself I do not see the obsession with putting every single though onto Facebook when people always end up talking about how people are nosy and always try and find out things that are not to do with them, but really it is an open door. Morden day reality star and youtube vloggers are putting every part of their lives on camera for us all to see, and they are doing it at their own expense. They may be getting something out of it by being able to buy things that make them more glamorous with the hefty amount that they get paid for doing these shows but that doesn’t change that we are ore interested in their lives than our own. Some of these reality stars even take to twitter afterwards taking about how people should stay out if their lives. Hypocritical? Yes.
We all seem to be abusing our own right, although many us won’t be youtube sensation or even have been on a reality show but we still do think of your own lives as a reality show within ourselves. We all tweet like we are famous. With even the prime minister and the queen having set up their own twitter accounts it has become the norm in 2014 that we jut post whatever we are doing or whatever comes int out head for all our followers to see.
With pernats and cyber campaigns at school always using the words “Anything on the internet is never private.” how and why do we even use the internet for daily life since it must be the root of all evil? The internet has changed the working and school environment as well know it, most of us now can’t even go to work without the internet so it would be virtually impossible just to cut it out of our lives like some suggest that we should. The public have become to dependent on things that the internet provide like Netflix, Facebook, online banking etc.
There are plenty of so called conspiracy theories about the government and their hacking but we seem to be the ones letting it happen by having so much personal information online. Most networking sites do have the options to have your profiles on private there are little people that seem to use that option. Most twitter account do not have any security settings on and just by looking at a few profiles you can see that the majority of larger accounts with thousands of followers haven’t got their account on private. Once again a prime example of how much we seem to care more about the following for ourselves rather than how many people can stalk out information. The phone hacking scandal has dominated the news for many months at a time during the trial period, exposing all the hacking that went on to show the very last amounts of privacy that celebrities have in this world There is no “no hack” option on phone like there is on networking sites. It’s just something that happens that you cannot help, no matter the privacy settings. People will always seem to find away in.
The main targets of the hackers does seem to be celebrities and them trying t expose their private life and the general public only seem to be targeted when it comes to needing bank account details. Perhaps it is like I said before and we are just letting people do this by putting ourselves online. People managed to keep in touch and do their banking without the assistance of the internet this time 40 years ago, so what has changed that has now stopped us doing such simple tasks like writing a letter or walking down the street to the bank.
Looking again at the life of reality starts compered to ourselves maybe we should stop trying to be like these people with no personal lives that are not documented by a gossip column or by some stranger on twitter. We all have this desire to be followed by people we don’t even know and people have done some stupid things for the so called “privilege’ of followers. We are happy for everyone to know our personal information that would usually be kept closer to ourselves, meaning we are happily abusing the right to privacy that we have been given for our own good.
Unfortunately the government and other bodies do not have the power to shut down every single profile on every social networking site just because people are putting all there information online, again that is a different right that they have and there is nothing that can we do about it.
Holly Done 