Privacy

 Today everything we do is being surveilled. Every time we are online, we are giving our private information to companies and the government.  Every move we make on the internet is being stored as data which is then sold to other parties. Your personal information is what pays for social media platforms and other online websites. Meta which is the company that owns Facebook and Instagram makes a little less than ten dollars per user.

It is not a secret that Google is tracking what everyone is doing online. This is so companies can send you targeted ads that are directly related to your life so that these companies are hitting their target demographic. Cookies is what google uses to track it's users. When you click 'allow cookies' when you enter a website it is letting companies know that you visited that website and it is all being stored. However Google has come out saying that they are blocking cookies from chrome. 

Some states government have taken little action to protect it's citizens privacy but nothing that stops it completely. In 2021 states introduced twenty data protection measures. Some states like California have created a law that allows people to ask companies to stop tracking them. Although there have been some steps toward protection nobody is completely safe from being watched on the internet.

There are some small things that everyone can do in order to further protect themselves on the internet. The first thing is not giving out personal information like your email address and phone number to companies when they ask for it. Another measure you can take is clearing your browser history regularly to stop companies from collecting this data over a period of time. It is also important to review websites privacy settings because some allow you to have some control over how much of your data gets shared. At the end of the day when you are on the internet you will constantly being tracked and it is important to stay mindful and aware of this fact.