[英検一級過去問]2021-2 Can individual privacy be protected in the modern world?

With advancing technology, it is consistently argued that how handle our personal information and the government tried to cope with it, however, I personally think it is too hard to protect our privacy.

One of the compelling reasons is that it is uncontrollable who can access the information especially when we resister it on the internet for shopping or so on. There are risks of hacking from outsiders or the possibility that received company leaks the data by technical mistake.

Secondly, as I mentioned above, the information is imperative marketing material that the company is eager to get. Nevertheless, the privacy policy showed when registering, most people don’t care about it and sometimes it is sold to the other organization. The biggest problem is that we can’t recognize such transactions and just receive undesirable consequences.

Moreover, the prevalence of SNS made it difficult to manage our personal information by ourselves. Everyone can share their location, preference, and plane readily and we also can gather the information by using it. The tendency told us that there is a possibility for revealing our information not only the company but also individuals,

Overall, in recent days, the revolution of technology effects business style and our lifestyles dramatically, therefore manipulating accessibility of our data is out of control. This is why I am against individual privacy can be protected.

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