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Is our Privacy on the Internet Safe?

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  How safe is the internet? The internet can be a very dangerous place as everything a person shares about themselves will forever be on the world wide web and can be very difficult and near impossible to find every trace of that information to remove it. This can be particularly dangerous when a person's identity is taken and faked by bots. This situation could be harmful to the individual themselves and also the community around that individual that doesn't know that their identity has been stolen and faked by a bot. Potential outcomes could be that people who trust that individual would share private information including their residential information or their contact information such as their mobile numbers or email addresses. Technology that has been created to make our lives easier have also been shown to collect information on you as you use it. A voice activate device such as Amazon's Alexa was invented to make peoples life more efficient by activating functions s...