Privacy on the internet is a big controversy for people who use social media. Over the years many social media has been changing their privacy policies, making users have less privacy than they really believe. Some examples are Facebook and Google.
Since Google is a free search engine, it collects information and data from its users to sell it to other companies for their use. Many search engines uses cookies to track down people's search history from their own computer. Many people currently uses Google's web browser, Google Chrome. This means Google has total control to track your search history. There was also a video showing how Google Chrome records what you type on your web address and collect that data to send to Google servers for their search suggestions.
Social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and other medias does not give you the privacy you want, it will only limit them. For example, Facebook over the years made their privacy settings for their users more public to the world.
I think the government should have responsibility to protect our privacy. Like the Fourth Amendment , we have the right to our privacy. I believe it includes our privacy online, not only for unreasonable searches. We shouldn't be living in fear that our information is not private or that people can wiretap our phone conversations. Many people want some things to be kept to themselves and people, such as these companies using our data, should understand and respect that. The companies should at least inform us and let us have permission to approve or disapprove of them using our data for their own use. In this day of age, social media is an interesting and cool feature that many young teens and adults like and enjoy, but it also has its sneaky and sly downside. As people using these features, we should know what the dark side of using social media.
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