Summary
What this article is basically saying is that there is so
little privacy on the Internet that people’s information is being sold on the
internet for as little as $1 a piece. People’s credit card numbers are being
sold for $1, Internet chat rooms are trading, buying and selling identities and
people are being stalked through the internet and murdered. There are even
people who’s identity has been lost and the person who stole it is out there
making a bad reputation on the person’s name. MSNBC investigation revealed
dozens of chat rooms where people’s names, addresses, phone numbers and credit
card numbers are bought. According to Rick Jackson, a CEO of privacy technology
firm Privada Inc said ‘this is only the tip of the iceberg.’
Opinion
This article is talking about how unsafe the Internet is.
Nearly everyone uses the Internet on a daily basis and uploads private
information on it. Private information that is being sent to someone or a
company buying something can now be easily hacked into and lost. I believe that the internet was always a public
place where no matter how many times they say that your information has been
erased or is safe it can always be found somehow. I think for sites like
Facebook and twitter or any other social networking site there should be more
security on it especially for teenagers and children because before Facebook
used to have extra security where only their friends and friends of friends can
see their information for 13-17 year olds but now that they have lost many
teenagers they took off that security so that they would come back. There are
so many incidents that happen because of the lack of privacy on the internet. I
think instead of talking about this problem so much we should actually find a
way to make the internet more secure about private information that is sent
out.
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