This article started off talking about how a school in Philadelphia, installed cameras in school-issued laptops which would be used to watch pupils and there were many negatives about this idea. For example, the students may be getting changed and this is taking away their privacy from where they believe that they are safe and are able to do whatever they want; however, they didn't know that someone was spying on them. This article also talked about how a bedroom is meant to be a private place for teenagers and aren't really getting that privacy which is why people were against this idea. In addition, this article also talked about the practise of examining large pre-existing databases in order to generate new information. However this is known to be illegal and which is why the bigger companies are free from this.
In my opinion, if someone tried to tracking every single online tracking movement, I wouldn't be too bothered about it because of the fact that nowadays, everyone would be doing to the same things as everyone else, e.g. going onto YouTube or Twitter; this has become a daily routine which everyone at our age does nowadays when they finish school everyday. For example, many people do illegal things for example downloading music for free and this wouldn't be an issue for me since it is being done by a lot of online users. On the other hand, I still believe that this is something that shouldn't be done because of the fact that some things should be kept private by the user (everyone needs their own space and shouldn't have someone monitoring their every online movement). Also, I disagree with 'there is a small price to pay' because the internet should still be about having your own privacy and no one should have access to that unless if you want those people to, e.g. Twitter is quite open to a lot of people but they still have that option of making their profile private to people they may trust.
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