The impact of privacy on technology is significant in the modern era because information sharing has paved the way to little if any semblance of privacy on the World Wide Web or in mobile technologies. Human beings now have the opportunity to track their steps and sync them to their phones, pay bills and manage their bank accounts, and communicate with people around the world using different forms of technology. At the same time, many people, including many within the younger generation, do not have any real inkling regarding what privacy means to them and that when they transmit information via different technologies, they do not have any real privacy to speak of (Turkle 2). This is somewhat frightening because the capability to steal information from another person is readily available without any real effort on the part of the intruder; furthermore, these actions demonstrate that although technology provides many benefits to its users, it also compromises their privacy in important ways that must be taken very seriously by individuals and organizations.
