The topic that I have chosen to research is privacy in the digital age. I chose this topic because I believe that technology is the future and learning how to decipher between what should and should not be on the internet is hard enough. Now, not only do we have to make this decision, but we also have to figure out how to keep information private. Keeping information private should not be such a hard task, but there are people who try to phish and hack, and we need to focus on keeping information private from these especially.
This topic is so broad that I could take and narrow it down talking specifically about different techniques in keeping confidential information private on the internet. This would be a different road to take instead of talking about what type of information should be kept private and why. In talking about different techniques I could discuss pros and cons and find our way to the most effective practices in a paper 8-10 pages in length.
Some possible research questions to start investigating are what forms of technology need to have facets focusing on how to keep information private. We could research this farther by investigating what practices in privacy are already out there, and what we can do to expand on them. Also I need to brainstorm some new and original ideas of how to keep information private; obviously password protection has been hacked into multiple times. Some hypotheses to investigate are outside forces that have already been looking into privacy and developing their own opinions. Not only can I learn from their previous research, but I can build my own ideas based off of ideas that my research has trigged.
