In times past, , even just 15 years ago, acquiring someone's personal information was something that was usually reserved for detectives and investigators on the private level. Regular people have generally not had the access(and well, the initiative)to find out personal information about their fellow man. While it has actually been easy to find some personal information, like phone calls, duration of those calls, purchase records, and even social security numbers, it has been made all the easier to a greater number of people thanks to the internet and your online identity.
Gaining your information is easier than ever it seems, as is infecting your computers with malware and viruses. One doesn't even have to be a hacker in order to just look around and find information about people, but for the people who can hack, so much more information can be obtained.
Once upon a time people were able to go completely off the grid, with no information being on them, but now that's nearly impossible with all the paperwork, website passwords and other things that we fill out or do, so our identities can be more easily traced.
While it is not as possible to go completely off the grid or protect your identity as well, people can still take precautions and control what information they put online about themselves. It's pretty interesting to see what people can do, and it will be even more interesting to see what measures governments and individuals take in order to protect the individual's information, or the information of a business even. Maybe governments will become even more invasive, and be worse than the individual hacker, if they are not already. Who knows, only time will tell.
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