David Petraeus

Recently, news came out that CIA Director of Central Intelligence David Petraeus resigned from his position because of an extramarital affair. The link between this and Online privacy is that the reason this affair became public, was because the FBI gained access to his email through Google (gmail). There are to general views people would tend to take on this issue. The first would be taking it as a positive. Everyone knows that the FBI and the CIA have an enormous amount of power, whether it be online or just in a general sense. It is good to know that they use this power to check on the people within their own organization, not just the citizens of the United States. It is nice to know that they do not hold the agents in their organization to a higher standard than they do for the rest of the world. On the other hand, it is troubling to think that anyone's email can be accessed and used against you. If the CIA Director can't keep his private life private, it is unlikely that the average person can. A major reason for this is because of Google. The company is well known for given out private information, with 93% of information requested by authorities in 2011 given out. For more information on this topic, here is a CNN article about the 5 things we learned from this scandal.. http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/ghitis-petraeus-5-things/index.html