Online and Offline Privacy

 Our world today thrives on the reliability of modern technology. For example, we use our phones to get directions to a location, we talk to Siri to send a text message while we are driving on the road, and we use online websites to access all of our assignments and grades for college. However, we are not the only ones that know what we use our technology for; the government and company administrators also do. Since most of us have iPhones, I believe it is safe to say that our phones were designed first for surveillance. This surveillance comes from either our government or another nation's, company administrators, and, quite frankly, the rest of the world. One of the ways the United States government knows what we do on our phones is because of cell phone towers. Whenever we are not connected to the internet, we use cellular service. But where does that service come from? Cell phone towers supply cellular internet to connecting devices, which could be upwards of one hundred thousand devices at a time. Even if these towers are owned by companies, the government still has access to the connecting devices, allowing access to our phones and what we are doing on them. The online world today, as we know it, is similar to that of tattoos on our bodies. This is because tattoos serve to tell a short story about something, and so does our posts on the internet. The internet will store our information for a lot longer than our bodies will be alive. Because of this, we need to be very careful about what we post on the internet; always act as if you are being watched.