In the fast—moving world, people can easily find private information such as their campaign contributions, property sales, court cases and photos. People’s digital footprint can be easily found on the Internet. No matter how the company and websites promise you that your information is stored securely and anonymously or not, the individual’s pattern on the Internet can reveal a tremendous amount of information about them. Therefore, if people want to protect their privacy, they can write to the web site owners and ask them to remove their private information form the websites, or for the particularly sensitive information form the websites, people can ask a lawyer for help. However, the most importation things we should focus on the privacy life is searchable are we need to be more judicious about what we post on the internet, government should take a part of responsibility and clearing cookies.

       I think individuals should be more judicious about what they post on the Internet. In my experiences, when I check my email, I always can receive many spam emails from some companies’ advertisement; I wonder how they got my information including mu name and email address. I am sure I did not give any of my personal information to these companies. Except for email, I guess people must have the same experiences as I do. Such as receive unknown calls, when you answer the call its advertisement. Therefore, our privacy information seems open to everyone. If someone want to know something about us, they can get it, when you googling your own name, they will find there are many information related to your privacy, your award, hobbies, address, contact information. When we see this privacy, we cannot do anything about them. Some information you will never think will be searched on the internet. Once you leave your privacy, information on the internet, your information might be copied to another websites. Therefore, what individuals can are leave as less information as you can, and tighten the settings yourself on the “Face book”, “Twitter”, to deny access to people you do not know.

       Furthermore, the government needs to enact a number of related laws. “Online information about consumers comes form several sources. Public recorders such as campaign contributions, property sales and court cases are increasingly posted on the on internet.”(‘Online, your private life is searchable”, David Sarno). Government should protect people’s privacy. Although the campaign contributions, court cases are public records, government should change the way to show the public record in another way. Perhaps the government can use the access to the public information. If people want to see the public records, he or she should meet some requirements, like their jobs are related to this records, or they should get a permit or access code to see the records from the websites. For the company, if some companies collect the privacy information from illegal way, they should be charged by law. The rules like that can protect people’s private information.

       Thirdly, to clean our cookies regularly is a useful and easiest way to protect our privacy by ourselves. Cookies are a tool that when we visit the web sites, it will show some privacy information about your log in last time. In most of time, we think it is convenient; however, it can leak out your privacy information. Therefore, clearing the cookies is vey essential.

       In sum, most of us do not want to find privacy information on the internet. What we can do are leave less information as we can, and clearing the cookies regularly. What’s more is government should enact some laws to protect people’s online privacy.