Privacy today is absolutely critical, especially since the world has become much smaller. The internet has completely and totally transformed the way that we go about our daily lives, but it has brought together communities that would have otherwise been kept in complete and total solitary confinement from one another – connecting small towns in the southern USA to cities in China (for example), and bringing the globe in contact with one another like never before in human history. This has made it easier for cyber criminals to steal our personal and private information, and honestly, the proliferation of online