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believed these sites to protect their data. name, and seeing him as they passed by

Americans, as a whole, also felt that our each other in their high school hallway.
privacy laws are too weak. Amongst all He blackmailed Cassidy, demanding
the groups who took part, millennials are photos of a better quality, a video, and

becoming more and more aware of the for her to undress for him on Skype,
need for stronger privacy laws. Our data and if she refused, he would publish

is everywhere. It was during my exten- her intimate images on her social media
sive research that I realized, that there accounts. This would have completely
is nothing to protect me, or you. AB- ruined her beauty pageant chances. Talk-

SOLUTELY NOTH- ing to CNN, Wolf said
ING. The hairs on she found the incident

the back of my neck traumatizing. She had
stand on end as I tell never interacted with the
you this because it is young man, only knowing

an incredibly scary his name, and seeing his
thought. It echoes the past by her in their high

‘Big Brother’ meta- school hallway. These im-
phor that was used ages were secretly taken
in George Orwell’s in Cassidy’s bedroom,

1949 novel ‘1984’. the most private, intimate
It speaks of political Photo Courtesy of google.com space, where you should

surveillance, totalitarian control, a loss feel the safest. Shockingly, Cassidy
of individual liberty, a ruling oligarchy wasn’t the only victim, 12 other girls
control, and a dehumanization of society. were listed in the criminal complaint,

It was almost a prophecy. What a bitter but this young man had hacked into the
pill to swallow. personal computers of between 100 to

150 people.
Let’s look at the case of Miss Teen USA
2013, Cassidy Wolf. Her webcam was Aside from reputation, what we often

hacked by a teenage boy she attended fail to think about are the psychological
school with, and one day, she received effects. All victims said their lives were

an email containing a series of photos of irreparably damaged. The psychological
her changing. Unlike most cases of inti- effect of betrayal is explicitly so broad-
mate photo exchange, they had no prior ranging to the extent that it can affect the

relationship. She had never interacted stability of an entire society. Trust is at
with this young man, only knowing his the core of human existence both emo-

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