Chapters 1 and 2- I Spy

The first two chaptes were definitely eye openers. It is clear that the concept of individual privacy has assumed a different meaning, that is if it remains at all. Even though google and other search engines are useful tools for information gathering and academic purposes amongst other uses, they whisk away our privacy. The internet has in a way blurred all individuals into one, and any one can be fished out by clicking on the search button. It has become just too easy to know who the other person is and what their background may be. It would be fair to say, that search engines like google have made every internet user (that is essentially everyone), vulnerable and 'out there'. However, every thinking individual has conveniently condoned it the issue, though we still like to occasionally complain about our privacy being violated. At the end of the day it is a trade-off, and we have chosen things to be the way they are.