In the new age of technology, most of us can not imagine leaving the house without our phones. While I am guilty of this, and do try to disconnect from the internet and be more present in my daily life, it is a very hard thing that I have to consciously do. Privacy has become more of a luxury rather than a necessity in modern times. Many people have posted their daily life on social media from how they’re feeling at the moment to where they are located at a moment in time. Additionally, our phones are tracking our information using cookies and track what you are looking at in order to try to cater to what ads you should be receiving. It is also speculated that our phones are recording our every move using the front and back camera. While facial recognition does this in order to unlock our iPhones, the recording is possibly never ending. It has also been speculated that our phones are listening to what we say as well. For example, if one was to talk about getting a new dog toy for their dog, they could receive an add for dog toys hours later. I have had this personally happen to me. I was sitting with my phone talking to my friend about wanting to get red hair dye and a day later I got many advertisements from a variety of companies trying to sell me red hair dyes. There are evident problems with the lack of privacy we have nowadays it has been often times overlooked by many.

