The article is about online surveillance and how companies and Government use 'data mining' among other means to access personal information on peoples social media accounts to sell to advertising companies in order to make a profit. The first page of the article features a news story on a school in America using webcams to spy on students and goes onto mention more subtle ways that people are spied on online. Moreover, the article then progresses to talk about 'edward snowdon' who is infamous for leaking information about the british and american governments spying operations on millions of yahoo users, among other things. The article ends by talking about how advances in technology will carry a greater risk of personal information being stolen and surveyed by unwanted guests.
In my opinion internet surveillance is necessary to some extent to protect users against threats and to thwart attacks but when this is done covertly on innocent members of the public the operation becomes unethical. Despite this people still use the internet everyday knowing that their activity is being monitored by various different parties, and this is because the internet has become one of the most important tools in modern day-to-day life,
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