A Global Perspective on Privacy Issues

I was just thinking about the last blog that I wrote about facebook privacy issues. I did a google search further to see if this was an issue with blogs as well. Is law enforcement using blogs to catch people doing illegal activities. The answer is yes...

It's not just facebook. MySpace and blogs and any public record of any kind is being debated heavily to see what police can search for while still protecting people's privacy. It's interesting that we have these public documents that we want people to view, yet feel betrayed when these public records are used against us to hold people accountable for illegal activities.

I think the world needs to recognize that we are living in a different age where we are privileged to have this kind of technology that allows us to easily communicate with others, but we have certain obligations to uphold the socially accepted norms of everyday life.