Hey, guys. Today I wanna talk about digital privacy but before I get to that, I want you to know where I am, because this is my favorite building on grounds. And I realize that can be somewhat controversial because everybody likes the rotunda. The rotunda's awesome. Okay, yes. All right. The rotunda is awesome, but I have such a fondness for this building. It is my absolute favorite place and when friends come to visit me, I always have to bring them to Brooks Hall, and I'll give you all, just my camera right here in a totally unprofessional camera move. You can see the side of it. It looks nothing like any other building on campus. And I love it. It originally was a natural philosophy museum, which is one of my favorite topics. So it was inevitable that Brooks Hall would be my favorite. So anyway, I just had to shout out my favorite building. Sorry. Welcome to the mook travel log. That's actually what this is about. I'm just kidding. Okay, so digital privacy. If you take nothing away from this lecture except one thing like, if you're just like, you know what, I've decided I'm only taking one thing away. Please make this the thing. With digital privacy, the rule I want you to follow is just assume there is no privacy. Okay? Just assume that anything that you put out there digitally is going to be seen by your worst enemy. Now, in a perfect world, we don't have enemies and we all love each other, and that'll be an awesome world, when we can get there. But really, what you should do is, just assume that what you put out there could be viewed by anyone at any time, because it really could. Now, obviously, I've talked a lot about integrity and honesty and all of that sort of thing, and certainly, I personally, will take stands on matters of conscience in which I believe, and, I don't care if people necessarily disagree with them, when it's something like that. But do think carefully, because, you don't always have to share everything that you believe. Not everything is a matter of conscience, right? So, I think a good rule is just to assume that anything you put online, could be seen by your employer, or your worst enemy, or somebody you're trying to get funding from. Just put everything through that lens. Again, I am not arguing against myself and saying that you shouldn't be authentic. You shouldn't be truthful, you shouldn't have integrity. Just think carefully, is what I'm saying. Now, online and digital privacy is a huge issue. I'm working on another huge presentation, sort of along the lines of my reputation management presentation, which hopefully you've seen by now. Hopefully you've reviewed that. It's gonna be the same in scope, which is to say pretty big. Still working on that. So this is a very big issue, and so, I can't cover everything in this lecture, and you wouldn't want me to. Trust me. But there are a couple of things that I want to point out to you. Number one is that, we used to assume that privacy was all right and that we had it. Someone had to go out of their way to violate our privacy. That is not the case now, particularly with a digital lifestyle. You should assume that, there is no such thing as free Wi-Fi, you know the free Wi-Fi that we love to get when we go to hotels, or when we're in coffee shops, or whatever. You're paying for that, through allowing that provider whomever it is, whether it's the hotel or coffee shop or whatever. You're paying for that by giving them access, to whatever it is that you're looking at online. They are monitoring that. They're tracking that. Because there's a whole movement towards big data, which I may or may not, do another lecture on big data. It could be helpful, but [SOUND] big topic there. But they all want access to your data, because they wanna know as much about their customers as they can, to know how to better market to them, to know how to better reach them, to know how to price things, frankly, let's be honest. So just remember, free Wi-Fi is like a free puppy. There's no such thing as a free puppy, there's no such thing as free Wi-Fi. You are paying for it. If you are paying to have secure wireless at home, you're paying for it with money, right? What I'm saying is, you're gonna pay one way or the other. Frankly, I would rather pay money, although I'm guilty of using free Wi-Fi as well, don't think I'm trying to say that I'm better than you, because I'm not I totally dig free Wi-Fi. But just be cognizant of it. If you are gonna use it, know what you're getting, and what they're getting out of it. Wow, that was a long discourse on that, but I just [SOUND]. A lot of people don't understand that, so I just wanna make sure that you can't say, I didn't tell you about that, cuz I did. All right, the other aspect of digital privacy that I wanna discuss is passwords. Now, the creation of good passwords is kinda controversial among some tech support people. I have seen almost fights break out on this topic, because people disagree about what constitutes a good password. I'll link to some articles. I don't want to weigh in on this. But I will link to some articles. I definitely have my own opinion about it. But how about we fight it out in the forums? I'm just kidding, no fighting. But that is really important, having a really good password that is not likely to be very hackable, very, very important. So, think about those things, respond, get in touch, let me know your thoughts about that, and if there's anything else on this topic that you'd like for me to address, please let me know. This is definitely iterative, and I can always make more videos. So, just reach out, let me know, and I hope this was helpful.