“Delete, delete, delete. This is a bit like your humanity being turned off” (Bruni). After reading the article “Hacking Our Humanity: Sony, Security and the End of Privacy” by Frank Bruni, I can say that I completely agree with the ideas that Bruni mentions and illustrates in his article. I too feel that our "privacy" is not as private as we might think. In fact, I don't think we have much "privacy" anymore, if we have any at all. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay According to Bruni, “You can no longer take for granted that what is to be seen by just one other individual will not find its acceptance by hundreds, thousands, even millions. This kind of privacy is a quaint relic. One might think that their forms of social media like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram can be private based on the settings they may have However, these things are never truly private. Those forms of social media and sites that were meant to be private can be easily hacked and important posts and information that needed to be seen only by a select community, they are now open for everyone to see and read. Another example of a new form of social media that people believe in 100% is the Snapchat app. This fairly new app, known for taking photos and then the photo is automatically deleted and never seen again after 10 seconds of viewing, ensuring what they claim as total privacy. Many people have used this app by sending inappropriate photos that were only meant to be seen or viewed once, and now it comes back to haunt them forever because their photo was never truly deleted. Many of these photos are now backed up in a database, and this app allows hackers much easier access to the victim's location and information via cell phone. Because of the Sony hacking scandal, many are afraid of the documents they may have on their computer, along with the things they search on Google or Bing and even websites they may have looked at or even purchased because of the personal information that comes with it. Everyone has the right to be afraid of these things, and after the recent scandal that Bruni talks about and which has impacted our society and the lives of many, everyone should be afraid. Everything we say or do is monitored, whether we realize it or not, and we should simply not fear this happening on our laptops and computers. Our portable and mobile devices such as tablets, iPads, iPods and cell phones are just as sensitive, if not more so. Technology continues to grow and evolve, and tons of new devices are created every week. According to President Obama, “hackers will get better” and as our technology advances, there will be even greater progress in breaching security and privacy due to these hackers. Due to this continuous and growing number of hacking scandals and the hacker threat that continues to grow and improve with the latest technology available, we as people, and our society as a whole, face many implications. One of the major implications we face due to this fear is self-censorship. People live in constant fear that what they write or say will one day end up being seen by the wrong person or interpreted in the wrong way, and this can lead to negative consequences for them. People fear so much for what they say, do or even write and this strongly implicates our society because it is killing the creativity that we as human beings generate. To be human, we must be.”