How has the Internet and technology affected an individual's right to privacy?

I began to allude to this topic in my last post.

There are several ways in which the internet and technology has affected an individual's right to privacy.

Lets just state the obvious - the Internet and technology has become so advanced, there is hardly anything known as "an individual's right to privacy." Technology geniuses could find anything that ever was published on the Internet - its like a giant cloud of history and information that is never truly deleted from the atmosphere that is the Internet.

Take for instance, FACEBOOK. (dun dun dun)

Or any social network, for that matter.

More and more people are publishing their "private" information on social networks. The networks provide "privacy policies" and "privacy settings," which allow some control. But really, as I mentioned, any expert has the capability of retrieving any history on the internet.

You can even consider Google.

They have employees who's job is specifically assigned to tracking user's history. They know when you searched what and how much you searched it. I understand the necessity of this.

All of that being said, I feel like people today are becoming more vulnerable, more transparent. They are more willing to put more information on the Internet than ever before. Because of that, the world has become more connected. This is producing negative and positive side affects. Which I could write about for days! Ill spare you!