Can i have some privacy please???

In 1972, Micheal Corleone hid in sicily for months after taking down Sollozzo and McCluskey, for revenge of attempt on his father, Vito Corleone's life. And in 2011, Serena Van der Woodson couldn't walk a block without being spotted and posted on gossip girl. How have our lives changed , or how have we changed it. Imagine a facebook addicted micheal corleone in 1972, constantly updating his status messages, could his coup on 5 families have been possible. I would have to say no.

We have compromised our own privacy and for what, for encroaching upon others??? Privacy, and the safety and security that word has always implied has become an illusion with time and technology. Every National spy network has access to all its citizen's emails and communication. Every webpage you open installs a malicious cookie on your computer which is in fact a spy to track you’re every move. There are analysts and predators in the legal space of digital world collecting data on your every click and close and predicting your behavior.With all these gadgets and technology only thing that has become cheap or even free is information. All you need is a person’s account nickname to find out what he has been doing.With just the information about zip code and date of birth you can uniquely identify a majority of influential population. That is how vulnerable we have become.

How obsessed have we become over gaining information, or rather i should say encroaching upon other's privacy. A person who is not perennially active on social networking circuit is out-casted. The only column that attracts us in a newspaper is Brad-Aniston break up or William-Kate marriage, not Japan's nuclear-seismic-tsunami disaster.

There is a reason we have right to privacy in our constitutions, because we deserve to choose and reveal selective information about ourselves. Constitution states no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law. It represents our freedom, our autonomy, which is the premise of our society today.

But there is no doubt individual privacy is at its greatest peril at this time with increasing control of government and security services on our every move, which is , they say, absolutely needed to maintain order in society in these troubling times. But we must ponder, haven't we created tool of our own destruction. Isn't it our own doing, which could become our undoing. When this revolution came we chased it , grabbed whatever we could, and now we are fighting against it. Fighting and longing for something which we willingly gave up, our privacy.

Can we even think of a life where there is no privacy. We will be slaves. Our civilization, our philosophy , our values depends on privacy. We must fight for it to preserve it, like species on the brink of extinction ,for without it we are doomed.