No such thing as privacy in the virtual world?!

Google as a well known search engine is continuously growing and gaining its popularity. Finding out that this company keeps a record of every data is very shocking but when you think about it more, it’s actually not so surprising after all. By keeping all the data, people’s privacy has been taken away and has disturbed a lot of people. However, my point of view is that in the virtual world the notion of privacy just simply doesn’t exist. If Google don’t keep the data as well as other companies does it mean that your information will be kept private? There are hackers in the virtual world who can simply decode almost anything in order to get into people’s accounts. What is more is that the service is free for all users, there must be something that is negative about all the service that we get. Even with posting a letter there is risks so the same concept applies to email as well. In the virtual world everything seems to be floating around and also it is out of our control as technology is growing rapidly. People tend to think that the virtual world functions like the real world, because of this users started to give trust but what is most important is that we have to know what is really true within the virtual world.

Google Earth a newly introduced device offers imagery which in a way allows us to experience, explore and discover the place without having to travel there. But people are concerned with the fact that, this way people won’t have privacy and what if stalker uses this device and track people, this would be very concerning. I guess everything just has its downside and it is really hard to avoid. Even without the help of technology, there still will still be stalkers around.