“Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.”
-Craig Venter
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There are one hundred ninety countries in the world today. Over seven billion people living in this world today. An average life expectancy of seventy-three years. With so many people, so little space and such a long time on this planet, is there even the slightest possibility that privacy can exist? We live in the era of the data cloud. Information is exchanged every second of every day. There are six thousand five hundred languages in the world today, and above seventy-five percent of the internet is social networking. With so many means of communication and.so many forms of exchanging data across the world from the comfort of your home. Secrecy cannot exist. Privacy is just a myth. The best solution for all issues relating to privacy is the acceptance of privacy never existing in the first place. In this paper I will argue that Privacy is a fallacy, it never existed and never shall.
There is a phrase in Latin “ens causa sui,” which means something that owes its existence to no other being. Think about it. Everything in this world which has scientific proof that it exists has a cause due to which it came into existence. What is the cause or the factor that brought privacy into existence? There isn’t one. Privacy was just a thought, a simple term coined to the secrecy of mankind but with no proof of existence it is basically a cultural construct. There are flaws in every concept but one of the biggest flaws in the concept of privacy is anonymity. There is no way for anyone in the 21st century to be anonymous anymore. Even in the early years, over a hundred years ago, we did not have the godly technological advances we have now. We didn’t have the means of transportation we do now. We also didn’t have the means of communication we have now but still information spread. The small community you would have existed in at the time would know everything about you. If privacy ever existed, information would cease to exist and that would lead to the annihilation of human existence. It is human tendency to have a thirst for knowledge. Without satisfaction of that thirst, the human race would cease to exist.
Privacy is defined as the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Now wrap your mind around that concept for just one second and actually think is that even possible. Even if you confine yourself within the safest and strongest of places, such as your own home, Due to the power and accessibility of social media people can and will be able to observe you. Today’s generation is connected all across the globe through the social means of Facebook, Twitter and etc. It is the day and era of the status update. A form of communication that not only discloses your location but the names of the people you are with, what you did and so on. Trying to separate the two is practically impossible. Human evolution is relentless. No matter what you do, human evolution will occur. Sadly the more we evolve the more the technology evolves. Where there is so much advanced technology privacy can never practically exist.
According to Isaac Newton “Every action has an opposite and equal reaction.” Now think about it why the need for such a myth in the first place. The question must arise that if Privacy really is a myth, why was this myth created? As there is no need for a myth if there is no intention behind it. Now this why the myth of privacy was created. It’s an actual economical reason. Around twelve percent of the current population in America work as security guards. That is exactly thirty-seven million nine hundred thirty-two thousand people in the United States. Their job is basically to guard the privacy of their employers. Hide and keep hidden all secrets that may cause total chaos. Now if the world was to find out there was no such thing as privacy and it was all a myth there would be no need for security guards as all that is hidden is bound to come out someday. Unemployment rates would skyrocket, The Government would have to raise taxes as they would go bankrupt trying to pay all those unemployment benefits and etc. There is a need for the myth to exist.
Nothing is absolute if there are boundaries. In layman’s terms that means that freedom is not a true entity if there are conditions. In that case according to our Constitution and the Bill of rights, Privacy is not a true entity as it has been conditioned. Our fourth amendment clearly dictates “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ”. Our privacy within our own home shall and will exist as long as there is no probable cause to say and search otherwise. So the rights to our private lives are conditioned based on the sole affirmation of one judge who may be corrupted or not. True entities do not have conditions. We know wind exists as there is no condition as to its existence. Such as wind can and shall only exist if a leaf moves. It just exists as there are no conditions to it. To support the previous amendment, another amendment that suggest the same implication is the liberty clause of the fourteenth amendment. “No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” So with the due process of law any person can be deprived of life, liberty and or property. If Privacy exists then its sole existence rests on the shoulders of liberty. If liberty can so easily be deprived then privacy can easily be eliminated without a trace. Something that can be there one second and then disappear another without any trail or proof of ever existing, can never have existed.
The era which we are a part of are full of many crimes. Crimes of passion, greed, even jealousy. But even when all of those crimes are punished they are difficult to pull off. But the easiest crime in today´s generation is the crime of stealing one´s identity. If someone can pass himself/herself as you so easily claiming the most private part of you, how can that one thing privacy exist? They say after you die, it’s only you and your thoughts. The simple version of the definition of privacy, but when grave robberies occur doesn’t that affect the so-called privacy of the dead. Let’s look at the facts, easily destroyed, can be removed without leaving the slightest trait of ever existing and is part of a ruse to save the government millions. Sounds like a falsified conspiracy theory. Privacy is fallacy and does not deserve the right to be considered an existing entity.
