My thoughts on Privacy
Privacy is rare to come by these days. The government, law enforcement departments, and social medias are collecting our information from our emails, phone conversations, text messages, and google searches. After listening to a Ted Talk, I learned that surveillance features are built into our phones. We may not realize it, but the phones we keep in our pockets are constantly listening to us. Christopher Soghoian raised the point during his Ted Talk that it may be our own government listening to us, but it also could be another countries government listening to us. This point is very frightening, and violating. No one should be able to listen to the conversations we have with our friends, but its worse that we don't know exactly who is listening to us. Catherine Crump gave a Ted Talk on how police departments are essentially stalking us. They have created automatic license plate readers that are mounted on light poles or the backs of the police cars. These readers scan the plate