Privacy comes with trust

Privacy can be a controversial topic. Who it should go to and how much people should be given is a part of this. Although many people often feel that everyone deserves privacy no matter who they are, there are some who can’t always have full privacy and need it restricted because of things like criminal behavior and age. This includes children, criminals, and others who may be under surveillance. The situations a person is in can also affect the amount of privacy they might get.

Everyone deserves privacy but more is gained with age, maturity, and trust. Saying this everyone no matter what age deserves privacy from the outside world, but when it comes to privacy from parents, children should have restrictions. Evidently kids don’t need much privacy but as they get older about the age of a kid in middle school they might want more, but it is important for parents to still give them privacy but still monitor them. Some of the things that might need to be monitored are who they hang out with, movies and tv shows they might be watching and phone usage. At this age it is easy to be tempted to do wrong and the things that happen and the people they hang out with at this age are going to influence who they are in the future. An example of something that might happen if children are given too much privacy and are not monitored is if they are hanging out with the wrong group of people, they might feel pressured to do something that could badly affect them in the future. In the worst case scenario being with the wrong people would lead to things like addictions, alcoholism, and even criminal behavior.

Criminals are a great example of people who don’t get much privacy for a good reason. Although most of the time they are not children, because of their bad actions they have lost the right to privacy. Like stated before, the amount of privacy someone is given has to be earned by trust and good behavior which criminals do not have, hence the reason they are in prison.

Thinking back to when I was a freshman I had a lot of privacy because I had earned my parents’ trust, but because I was only fourteen some things were still monitored like who I was hanging out with and where I was going. Someone I know personally, did not have much trust so not only were who they hung out with and where they went monitored, but their phone and texts were also looked through often. As stated before privacy comes with trust, age, and maturity. There is no set amount of privacy someone should be given because everyone act differently and make different choices. “data privacy” by stockcatalog is marked with CC BY 2.0.