online privacy
A variety of TED talks touch on the subject of individual privacy in an online global world. Private companies and governments alike are beginning to monitor private individuals on a mass scale, and anything they record or anything that is upload about us online is likely to outlive ourselves. Privacy is a dying commodity and many people do not even realize it. While I personally do not have any issue with the government and police forces taking pictures of my license plate when I pass them I do have an issue with private companies our entities outside the government having access to this information. The online world is vastly unregulated and it is often up to 3rd party distributors to take down any potentially harmful information. We saw this recently with Tumblr's crackdown on pornography on their site. But If these companies do not want to crack down in a similar power then victims who have had intimate photos or details of their life plastered online have very little power t
