Technology and Privacy
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The world today has modern technology that makes life easier and dependable on it. Technology claims a huge influence on many aspects of life: economic, social and political among others. There are both aesthetic and scientific dimensions towards technology in that those scientists and artists have worked single-handedly or together in the future and present-day like in making dimensional inventions. Although the technology has its positive on the human life, it also has its negative effects on humans. Over years now so many evils against humanity have cropped up socially, politically and even economically (Agre & Rotenberg 1998).
Politically, people have pointed accusing fingers to the government for failing to safeguard their privacy but only to make false assurances. The government has been repeatedly allowed its agencies to monitor phone calls and emails from foreigners visiting the USA with the intention of protecting its national security. They monitor these communications in hope that they detect any terrorist plans against the country. Although monitoring may have succeeded extensively in a repeated occasions, the privacy of innocent individuals has been violated by accessing private conversations. It is the fear of many too that while only government agencies can access private information, the data gathered could be used not only for the right reasons. Personal information of people is being leaked even by the trusted government employees thus underscoring the importance of privacy (Cohen, 2000).

Socially, questions of how safe and private using technology is have been raised. The handling of runaway data raises questions too. New social and browsing sites are being created over time with each demanding some personal information for identity reasons. Controversial to the