How Did We Get to Where We Are Now with Online Privacy?

substantial life concealment is an easy matter to understand . Do n’t glance into my window ! Do n’t put up surveillance cameras on every corner ! Do n’t tap my telephone set call ! But what about on-line privacy ? What should the government ( ahem , NSA ) be able to get laid about us ? How much data should caller give them ? And just how the heck did we get here with online concealment ?

PBS ’ always excellent Off Book serial publication analyzes how on-line concealment get to where it is now through its story , the law that order it and the applied science that always change it . PBS Off Book explain :

As technology has evolved over the preceding two centuries , so have our expectation about privacy . This Modern digital reality allow us to link with each other with increasing ease , but it has also allow our personal info readily available , and our privacy vulnerable . ethnical norms have pushed us all online , ostensibly at the mercifulness of whatever terms of service are put before us . Cookies and trailing let companies to collect measureless amounts of info about us , often more than we ’d share with kinsperson and friends . And in the get-up-and-go for home security , the government has collected vast amounts of entropy as well , often without our knowledge . With the NSA escape reigniting this important public debate , we take a closer aspect at the res publica of secrecy in the digital age .