Right to Privacy is a Myth in this Digital Era

There is no doubt that the statement is not a lie. There is no question about how all of us are caught in this tangled web, both knowingly as well as unknowingly. We can not possibly function a day without being involved in something digital.

From the start of the day, posting or at least being present on a social media platform to using applications fed in our mobile phones to book a cab or even order dessert at the end of the day, we all are very much involved in this web.

Not like any of us actually take the time out to realize how all our information, starting from our name and contact to even our residential address, are laying there in the open with almost no security insurance. With booking a cab that we trust will drive us back to our house, we have no option but to trust without even realizing the consequences if the driver turns out to be not trustworthy enough.

For safety purposes, the location can be shared with the trusted ones, but then again, there is no privacy. Our information, our current location is being shared in our consent. The fact that most of the information and data that are “ accidentally ” leaked or purposely shared are all after we press “allow” on our screen, we consent for our information to be out in the open.

Studies done by students of top international schools in India shows that as much as we celebrate living in a digital era with everything accessible with just a few taps, we forget that consequences are just behind the door waiting for us to share sensitive material. We all are bound into this dangerous thread with no option but to have some amount of trust every time we use any of these applications.

One of the riskiest parts is not knowing the real identity of the person we hold our little trust in. One’s true intentions are unpredictable. It would be unfair to say that only children and adolescents fall into traps because the adults, equally, are victims of the unpleasant offenses.