Privacy
I agree to the terms and conditions.
I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use.
How many times have you glanced past these sentences before?  Hastily scrolled through endless paragraphs to check the boxes at the bottom?
In class, we discussed how certain websites display specific advertisements that target users who are interested in those specific things, thus increasing the success rate of such advertising. Â Such websites are able to do this because they have access to information that we “permit” them to have access to.
Is our privacy being violated if we consciously choose not to read about the ways in which we may be allowing our privacy to be violated in writing (even if that writing isn’t our own)?  And to what extent do such websites specify how much of our privacy they will be invading?  What is the wording like?
To what extent is the invasion of our privacy legal?
How true is it that nothing can be “deleted” from the web?
How closely is our every move on the Internet being watched?