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title: Privacy Footprint

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# Privacy Footprint

Despite being in the midst of a technological revolution, I have always tried to stay as private as possible online. I had alwasy tried to protect my name online, whether it be through private accounts or just staying away from certain apps or websites. I have never had Facebook or TikTok becuase I try to protext my personal information and data as much as possible, even though I know at the end of the day, I cannot do much to stop the data monitoring of many apps and companies. 

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Not too much comes up online when I search my name, but a good amount from highschool, LinkedIn, and even these HackMD pages. 
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I find it very weird that we can look people up and find where they are, who they buy their cellular plans on, and other personal informaton for $0.95. 
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I have always said that I feel like my phone is listening to me when I get an creepily accurate add on my phone. Yet, as it was said in the New Atlas article, the truth is so much worse. I had known of the fact that phones track the networks of people around you - explaining why my roomates have similar For You Pages on TikTok or why my sister and I get the same ads. But, never did I realize that they could take screenshots and, for lack of a better term, monitor our screens. It is a very unsettling thing to think about especially becuase we have no idea how or when it happens and what they do with that information. 
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There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that makes it feel like there is no way that you can actually protect yourself from being on the internet. It makes it seem like because we use the internet this is just what happens, when in reality we should be able to protect ourselves and our data. I think that with much more legislation going trough the government on previously unregulated technology, something about this is bound to come up very soon.  