The Immoral and Invasive Nature of Data Mining Onto an Average Online User

        Technology has become an essential advancement in the daily lives of people. Whether it is “liking” a celebrity’s post on Instagram, online shopping for a “night-out dress,” or simply “Googling” how to make bolognese pasta for dinner, as a global community, humans are heavily reliant on the trivial role technology plays in everyday life. However, with the rapid increment of technological use and constant internet browsing, the dangers of online privacy invasion have simultaneously become steadfast. Every click, page visited, every word searched, and cookie accepted only makes a user more vulnerable to elaborate profilings compiled of data sets, which are then analyzed by larger entities through data mining...