“Sin In The Global Village”: Privacy In Cyberspace

Part I of Essay
Robert Wright wrote an essay featured on page 135 of Time Magazine on October 19, 1998. The essay was called “Sin in the Global Village” and it focuses on personal privacy in cyberspace. The Internet is a rapidly growing web of information that more and more people are us ....

Part II of Essay
.... to its origin. In short, people’s visions about a totally anonymous Internet are false because of the electronic trail that is left for others to find. Linda Tripp, who taped her conversations with the former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, exposed President Clinton’s recent oral sex scandal by means of surveillance. Wright is suggesting that this could happen to anyone. Computer surveillance isn’t all that uncommon these days so people should look out for what they write and where they go on the Internet because someday it might be use ....