FREE ESSAY ON PRIVACY

PRIVACY

A person has a right to solitude and freedom from prying public eyes, in other 
words, to privacy. The definition of privacy in the Webster's Dictionary is defined as 
isolation, seclusion, or freedom from unauthorized oversight or observation. In the 
essay  The Price of Admission: Harassment and Free Speech in the Wild Wild West, 
Stephanie Brail discusses how online harassment has become a media headliner in the 
last few years.
There are many reasons to hide your real identity when you use the Internet. You 
might want to protect yourself against an oppressive government, or post personal 
messages to a Usenet newsgroup without identifying yourself to the whole world as the 
poster. Although everyone takes privacy in normal life for granted, trying to get the
same 
level of privacy on the Internet (or even on your own computer) is a little less
accepted, 
and sometimes a bit more complicated. While the general attitude is hard to change, many

ways exist to enhance your privacy online. For the most part, total privacy does not
exist 
on the Internet. It is nearly impossible to erase all of your digital footprints. This
does not 
warrant panicking, however. On-line shopping at reliable sites is perfectly safe, and
risks 
to your personal privacy are minimal. However there are steps you can take to ensure that

you have a certain level of anonymity when browsing the web. Visit the other Privacy 
sections for software and information on anonymous e-mail web browsing, and file-
security. 
Stephani Brail was an internet resident since 1988 when she discovered the 
price of freedom when she became the focus of the first case of sexual harassment on the

Net to attract national attention. She believes that online harassment is already killing

free speech on the Internet. Brail discusses in her essay about internet harassment which

has received a lot of press in the past few years. Women seem to be becoming increasingly

subject to offensive, sometimes threatening behavior in the workplace, on campuses, and 
now, on the internet . She also discusses when harassment takes on a threatening tenor 
and the subject of the harassment is placed in fear, it may become actionable not only in

civil courts, but criminal courts as well. Various state and federal statutes regarding 
harassment and stalking have been enacted to attempt to deal with such unwelcome 
attention, and its harmful effects. As technology progresses, so have legal regulations
and 
remedies. Seeing cyberspace as their domain, some men apparently feel that female 
users must be ready to accept hostility as the price for online participation. This 
rationalization for open hostility and harassment toward women seems to be analogous to 
the experiences of women entering traditionally male-dominated professions and trades, 
particularly during the past three decades. 
A person has a right to solitude and freedom from prying public eyes, in other 
words, to privacy. The definition of privacy in the Webster's Dictionary is defined as 
isolation, seclusion, or freedom from unauthorized oversight or observation. In the essay

 The Price of Admission: Harassment and Free Speech in the Wild Wild West, 
Stephanie Brail discusses how online harassment has become a media headliner in the 
last few years.