Privacy Concerns and Reality

Lots of things have been said about privacy and how it is affecting our lives, but there is no escaping the fact that we are also to blame our selves for exposing ourselves so duly on the internet. First of all the things that are not in our control, like when we give our social security numbers and our credit card numbers on line to purchase something or to apply for a loan. The technology is so advanced right now that almost all of things are being done online in order to save money or to have our convenience but this saving money and convenience have a price. And this price we have been paying lately through breach of our information and identity theft online.

I have also been a victim of this online theft, but apart from this, we have also started to give more of our information in the form of social networks and our resumes being online. When we shop, we use our credit cards to make purchases and thus give our address and credit card numbers and when we apply for a car or house loan or anything to do with our social security, we willing or unwillingly have to give our numbers on line and also with this abundance of social networks, we constantly update our status or where we are and we are doing at a particular time so that we invite unscrupulous elements to tap into our information. The reality is that with all this hue and cry about privacy and identity theft, we are still putting more and more of information on line and then try to surprise ourselves when we fall victim to it.