The Price of Convenience

The internet age has changed the way people live their lives. On empirical evidence, it would seem that this change has been, on balance, for the better. It is easier to stay in touch with old friends and colleagues. The costs of business have lessened through connectivity and more mundane things such as increased efficiencies in record-keeping. Knowledge which may have been inaccessible to the masses in times past is now readily available in a matter of keystrokes. However, though the scales may tip toward the favorability of the internet age, this doesn't mean that there aren't counterweights. For more on one of the biggest costs countering the many benefits of the E-World, readers can read up on what is merely the latest of the many large-scale data breaches which have graced the headlines in recent times here.