More Privacy

In this technologically growing society, where internet and computers have become faster, easier and more accessible, privacy is a thing that has become harder to keep. With our negative rights to digital privacy, we should be protected from people obtaining our private information on the internet. For instance, people should not be allowed to look through our e-mails, which is why we have passwords. As though there may be no incriminating evidence that the person is doing something wrong, there is still a lot of personal information in a person’s email, such as billing information, passwords and private conversations.
As with a topic discussed in class, with Facebook, a person’s digital privacy is a positive right. Facebook profiles are often loaded with personal information about a person such as photos, birth date, school attended, current job, etc. but a person can choose the information they post. Also by default a member’s profile is viewable by anyone, a person can change their settings to permit only their networks and/or friends to be able to view their profile. A member even has the ability to specify how viewable their profile is by being able to decide the privacy restrictions per application (ie - photos, comments, gifts, etc.).
It is nice for people to have the right to choose what they wish to keep private or not, but in general I believe negative rights are more important to digital privacy as people need to be protected on the Internet, as the World Wide Web is so large with so much information.