'Tracking Is An Assault On Liberty'

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In two argumentative essays, “Tracking is an assault on Liberty,” by Nicholas Carr and “Web Users Get as much as They Give,” by Jim Harper, they give their own opinions on how internet privacy and tracking should be. Carr believes that our privacy should be protected by keeping internet tracking illegal, while Harper believes that tracking is apart of the internet and shouldn’t be taken down. They both state good examples on their opinion of internet tracking but who is right and who is wrong? In their own ways, they are both right. Carr explains that tracking and cookies shouldn’t be allowed because it invades their personal life and their privacy. He uses an example of a man finding the names and addresses of 250,000 people just by using the wish list off the website, amazon.com, used for online shopping. You probably …show more content…
He talks about the use of cookies and how looking at certain things can have certain ads. This can also give us the ability to look for people who are using the internet for bad, not just casual uses. He also claims that it is our job to make sure we aren’t leaving too much info and our privacy is depending on how we use the internet. He states, “Cookies are a surreptitious threat to privacy, the way smoking is a surreptitious thread to health. If you don’t know about it, you haven’t been paying attention.” The both state their different reasonings on their opinions of internet tracking and privacy, and they both are correct. In some cases there should be some privacy but at the same time tracking is part of the internet and is most likely to stay. If you truly wanted more privacy on the internet, you can download add-ons such as adblock or even go into private/incognito mode on your browser, which stops the use of cookies. All in all, there are many ways to protect yourself from privacy invasion but internet tracking is going to stay for
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