Behind the Ivy - Summer 2018

BEYOND THE IVY

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Technology has become an obsession. Photo Soleil Krcmar

We don’t have to put in the work; the information comes to us.

but we are the ones who created the conditions for these breaches in the first place. So, in this decade, when it has become seemingly impossible to live our lives without the convenience of social media platforms, what we should also consider are the trade-offs we have sacrificed along the way.

As we have moved from actively looking for information on the Internet to having it fed to us instead through social media, we have become more passive consumers of information. And this very habit has allowed companies like Facebook (and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook) to take advantage. It is more than fair to blame Facebook for privacy breaches it has committed,

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