Privacy

Surveillance cameras,such as this one at atrain station,lessen privacy.

Privacyis the ability to choose whatinformationor personaldatais hidden and who it's hidden from.

Privacylawsin many countries give the right not to be unfairly subjected to invasions of privacy.

TheUniversal Declaration of Human Rightssays that privacy is ahuman right.

Importance

Everyone wants to keep things about them private.

Some people want to keep theirreligion,sexual orientation,andopinionsprivate so that they don't get in trouble with theirgovernment,the people they know, or both.

Internet privacy

Many things on the internet are tracked and sometimes sold by different groups of people.

For example:

• Yourinternet providercan see the names of thewebsitesyou go to (for example: Wikipedia), if the website uses HTTPS. If a website usesHTTPyour internet provider can see the exact page you're in (for example: Privacy page on Wikipedia) and things you write in that website (Like your password).This is why HTTPS is considered by web browsers as safe but HTTP is not.

  

  HTTPSin abrowser'saddress bar

• Googletracks and stores data created by theGoogle searchesyou make,the emails sent from and toGmailaddresses, on all websites you visit that use Google Analytics, and more.
• TikTokcollects and shareslocationdata, sees private messages, sells your personal information to others, and more.

The senders of anemailcan track the time you open an email using pictures that sometimes can't even be seen.