I am currently planning to write my first essay about the essay “Hello Future Pastebin Readers” by Quinn Norton. This essay is mainly intriguing to me because it is an important reminder that the publication of most people’s private information is nearly inevitable. It is interesting to realize how much of our information we make freely available without any concern about the repercussions. From Snapchatting our locations to checking in on Facebook, we constantly broadcast our information to everyone who can listen without any hesitation.

It’s also important to me that I had never considered the concept of “Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.” This is a ‘law of data’ penned by the author, Quinn Norton. He claims that this rule has always been applicable to data, but it is only with the internet that the rule became so important to recall. The point of this rule is to remember that data often ends up in locations where it wasn’t intended to end.

I’m excited to write an essay about this topic specifically, because it is an issue which I believe is important and needs to be brought to light for modern society. It’s compelling to me that this topic is so obscure to most people. I hope that my essay will help change everyone’s opinion about public data.