Privacy is a very important concern of people in society today. With the new information highway, aka the internet, privte douments, reports, filings, and such are becoming increasingly easier to get a hold of. As an individual you can invest in encryptionagencies which can help you create passwords and such in order to limit the access to your files. You can also educate yourself on what other measures you can take in order make your "life on the internet" more private. For example, not giving out your credit card number so flagrantly on the internet. But this still does not help you when it concerns your medical records, traffic violation records, insurance papers, credit card information, etc because the main company you work through handles all of that information in their own way. The government and these companies have been severly lacking in their effort to control people's access to private files thus many people's documents and personal information have already become public knowledge. A person's life can be slowly pieced together through all of this different information and the consequences of this can be grave depending upon who is holding onto the information.