Digital media and social justice is a big issue, especially when it comes to a person’s privacy. With the technology advances we have these days nothing can be considered a secret anymore. People can find away to get into your email, use personal information and spend money on your credit cards without even stealing your wallet. Just within this past month celebrities have had their iCloud account broken into and personal pictures sent all over the world through the internet. What at one point was thought to be an innocent picture to your significant other has now been seen by everyone across the globe. Nothing on the internet is ever really gone, you can delete anything you want but once it’s out there, it’s out there for good. Privacy becomes a huge issue not only with the degenerates of the internet, but also with our own United States Government.  Our own government spies on us through our phone calls and text messages without us even knowing it because it’s considered an issue of “National Security”. An Article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reveals that Verizon was ordered to give a record of every Verizon customers call history. Every phone call you have ever made, the exact time you made it and how long your call was has been handed over to the government. Whether you’re using the internet or using your phone nothing is ever just between you and whoever you’re conversing with, privacy is something that is very rare in today’s society so you have to be very care with what you type, send, or say.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans

Author: Cindy Cohn and Mark Rumold

Date: 9/18/2014