Captives of the Cloud

The article begins by introducing and explaining the idea of the cloud and how it came into use. It was a little difficult to actually grasp this abstract idea and understand the how it actually works and what it means. Throughout the article there was a series of graphics to explain different concepts and situations, but personally made things even more confusing. The article goes on to further describe that use of the cloud means that your data falls under the  jurisdiction of the Patriot Act. Furthermore meaning that the information that we have on our computers, tablets, mobile devices, etc. is available for the government to surveillance.

There really is no way to stop these actions of all of your personal information to be inspected unless we stop using the devices all together. It seems that many people have an understanding of these actions, but people still continue to use these electronic devices. Does the the patriot act really pose a threat or issue to the American public? Are people really willing to give up their complete privacy in order to be digitally connected to the world?