Private Blog

Privacy as definited in the dictionary is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. As humans, we are social animals we want to share with others and gain personal satisfaction from being social. However, we al so crave the idea of being free from the eyes of judgemental people. We all have things to hide, wether most of us not as bad as plotting a terrorist attack or an attempt at hurting someone else. We hide things that may seem bad to us but not to a mass. As humans, we find comfort in hiding things that we see as bad or risky there fore categorizing these things as private. We decide who we want to know what and when to share a particular idea or activity with someone. 

Most people categorize the hesitance of getting rid or privacy or an age of severe transparency as being something only bad people don't want. The idea what if you have nothing to hide put it all out in the open is not a black and white idea. There are grey areas that as humans we have the freedom to keep closed inside, maybe not always forever but atleast when the timing is right.  Lack of privacy creates a prison in the mind because as people we are naturally created to change behavior when we know or even suspect that someone else is watching. I listened to a TED talk by Glen Greenwald, he was basically making the argument that people want privacy because it is our freedom that leads to creative actions and discovery. He also pointed out that those making the claims about privacy not being very important are usually the most private people. He gave the example of Mark Zuckerberg and how he bought a house and bought houses directly next door to him in order to keep a more controlled private life. Ironically, Facebook has terms in conditions that prevent certain aspects of a user's privacy to be kept private.