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The Erosion of Privacy in America Late at night, a seventeen-year-old boy is sitting in his room typing away on his personal computer. For hours, he sits there, staring at the monitor as words upon words come up as he’s typing. His parents think he is doing all of his schoolwork and being the great son that they think he is. But in reality, he is networking into different companies credit reports and personal data. Then he is moving on to cracking into people’s computers by sending out viruses and receiving all of their personal information that is stored on their computer. Everyday, people all around the world are losing their privacy by means of technology and media. Although there are ways that all this can be prevented, more and more ways to steal all of this information from people and companies are being created at an extremely rapid rate. “Privacy” can be defined in many different ways, depending on its context. The constant growth of information technology raise concerns about “information privacy.” (Cosgrave) The need for information privacy is based on two propositions. First, that control over our personal information is important because mere awareness by others of certain types of informati