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Privacy & the Internet

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The internet is perhaps the most public environment in our existence.  Once you put a piece of information online, it is on there permanently.  With technology improving every day, there are various different things that are possible that we as a society are unaware of.  Many of these things are placed strategically in the terms and conditions of many applications.  They are deliberately made to be lengthy and hard to understand so that customers overlook significant rights that are buried somewhere in the document.  The government is able to have a clear view of our private lives.  With license plate trackers and data mining, it is hard to do anything without being tracked somehow.  This is unethical in my opinion because it hinders people from acting how they normally would if they were not constantly tracked.  It restricts our autonomy and personal freedom.  For example, the Amazon Alexa is a device marketed to consumers to create convenience.  However, it was discovered that rega