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FACEPINPOINT

        Unfortunately, we live in            pen to anyone, celebrities           icans, nearly half of the

        a culture that prefers to            and non-celebrities, high            US adult population who
        point the finger of blame,           profile, or not, just like           were hacked in 2014, we
        even when that finger                Cassidy and the assailant’s  aren’t exempt from cloud

        isn’t clean. Continuously,           co-workers. You and I                or webcam hacks either.
        while reading up on this             could easily become vic-

        subject, I came across               tims at any given moment.  On my quest to find an
        phrases such as “why did             This could be happening              answer to my question, I
        she/he send the photo in             right now, or even half              found the answer within

        the first place?” or “She/           an hour from now, in any             the absence of data and
        he got what they deserved  given setting. Hotel rooms  material. I found out ex-

        for being careless.” Why             with a hidden camera, a              actly what I had to do to
        must we take everything              tan room with a hidden               prevent future cases such
        at face value? Why have              camera, a massage par-               as the one that I witnessed

        we become so dehuman-                lour, a public toilet, even          on the news, the case of
        ized to the pain and suf-            a repair shop can extract            Cassidy, the women who

        fering of other individuals  your content and upload it  had been left irreparably
        within our society? What             on to the Internet. Much             damaged, and the 110 mil-
        happened to our ability              like Cassidy and those               lion Americans. I found

        to empathize? What indi-             100 plus people, the co-             out how to protect some-
        viduals within the society  workers, the celebrities                      one’s daughter and son,

        that we are living intend to  that we know and love,                      sister, and brother. I am
        forget is that this can hap-         and the 110 million Amer- extremely proud to say




























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