The science of data communication has been around for a long time. In the beginning we use tools like the telegraph and telex machines to exchange information via different forms code. The tools we use now Computers and smart phones; weather responding to an email or updating your facebook account we all transmit data least once a day. Our society is more connected than is has ever been but it has come with a price and the price is privacy. In a world of internet information can be found with ease. So the question is how you can protect yourself in world of the internet?
In the article “The net is the world” the author discusses how a lack of internet privacy can turn to real life tragedy. The Article talks about the incident that happened at Rutgers University a few weeks ago in where to college students were arrested on invasion of privacy charges after they where link the suicide of one their classmate. The death was blame on a webcam prank go wrong; in the video the young man Tyler clement was seen in the video with another man. The video was quickly broadcast on his roommate twitter account. A few nights later clement sent out a farewell on his facebook page and jumped off a bridge. If convicted clement roommate Dharun Ravi and his friend molly wei will go to prison. This Incident show how information transmit online can be harmful and that there must be a
