Reverse Look Up: Hard questions you should ask yourself
This is a pretty exiting age. There are a number of reasons for that. The population’s perceptions have shifted. What were once inacceptable practices and behaviours have suddenly become the norm. We see a lot of different examples of that. And Most of the example are good. Medicinal drugs (weed) are now legal in certain states and so is the homosexual union. Some rules are not permitted on the federal level, but state citizens still choose to pursue these practices.
Technology has a big part in this evolution also. The power of centralized electronic archives and the world wide web made our lives easier. In the past you had to manually search for a paper ‘entry’. Now it is done with a click of a button. Another advantage is that back ups are made and stored in different locations. Before, if a paper was destroyed it was the end.
Unfortunately this is a 2 sided coin. These depositories of information might be hacked from distance. Unfortunately this convenience puts us at risk. Even the latest firewalls and ant viruses cannot guarantee that information will not leak.
It’s scary, but it doesn’t mean we should revert back to stone age. There are many examples of how technology can help regular people access large databases. Let’s take telephone number lookup as an example.
You can run a reverse phone lookup on a number to find out who the owner is. It has a lot of useful applications in our everyday lives. If a person is being bombarded with phone calls from a particular telemarketing company he can reverse lookup their number and send an official letter to their address. You can also discover who is that annoying individual who is placing silent phone calls.
As good as it sounds, this instrument can do a lot of harm if it falls in the hands of the wrong people.
A mentally unstable individual might use it as well. A careless person might give out his or her phone number in the club and become a victim.
But where do we draw the line? Should we dictate what we can and cannot use because of a small percentage of evil doers? It’s actually this article that made me ask all these questions: http://phonelookuponline.com/articles/reverse-cell-phone-lookup.php
I think that every person should have a say in this matter. Otherwise the federal government and private corporations will continue grinding at the stone. Imagine waking up one day to a world where privacy is a secondary notion. And when that stage is reached it’s often a done deal which is hard to reverse. I see only one possible solution which can help us avoid this nightmare. I believe that privacy matters should be voted on by every citizen.
