The material given for this week’s blog covers a new topic of the modern world or we can say a new problem. The readings and the movie “Snowden” both are on the same topic i.e. the data breach and hacking which can be considered one of the biggest threat to people of the world from technology.

Starting from the article “The Messy Media Ethics Behind the Sony Hack”, the author has said right about the fact that the gray area where most of the information resides in between the private and public or between prurient and illuminating might not be the exception but the new normal. Hacking the private information no matter what the reason is should be considered unethical and immoral act disregard of the reason that why such an action is being taken by the government or by the journalist at first place. In this article the author said that “The stance that journalists and academics take on these documents has the potential to guide our nation’s understanding of how we treat the compromise of the 21st century’s most valuable commodity, for both individuals and corporations: privacy.” And I totally agree with this point that our privacy is on threat in any case.

The other articles have mentioned the list of the hackings that have been made in the recent years and the data of the general public like their name, Id card numbers, debit and credit card numbers, date of births all have been stolen and then these very sensitive information is used by the hackers in order to earn money in the black market.

Coming towards the movie of the week i.e. “Snowden”, I have found the movie quite interesting, the character of Edward has played the role of whistleblower and leaked the highly classified information from the NSA when he was an employee there. He choose to take this step in order to expose his government in front of the general public and to let the people know that the things they consider private are not private because the government is always spying on them. In order to take such a big step he had to compromise his whole life, his career and his girlfriend. He moved to Hong Kong and from there he planned this whole thing.

 I feel like “the modern battlefield is everywhere” whether Snowden remain successful to open the eyes of the general public or not but in this modern world we cannot deny this truth anymore that we are constantly being seen by the agencies and every single act of ours is being captured either we like or dislike it. Why are we facing all these problems is only because of the advancements in the technology. It is only because of the advancements that now our most private activities or deeds are not private anymore. My question to all of you is

Are you okay with this change?

Does the movie attract your attention? Did you like or dislike the concept?

Keeping in mind this week’s topic, I have chosen this article in order to let you guys know that on what levels these breaches have reached so far and what are the consequences that people have to bear from it.

Link: https://auth0.com/blog/the-11-biggest-data-breaches-of-2020-so-far/