On The Media: Further Down the Ashley Madison Spiral (pt. 2)

Ashley Madison, an affair website, has recently had leak in its data and all of their client lists was released. This week On The Media went more in depth on this social spiral.

Cultural: All who accessed the website were leaked revealing who used Ashley Madison since it started. It created reminder that there really isn't any privacy on the internet.

Temporal: This is the second leak within the last year. The first leak, with Apple Cloud, really only dealt with celebrity accounts. 

Social: A lot of marriage were devastated by the leak. This created the debate of whether or not privacy on the internet should be more regulated.

Physical: Men who were there to solicit an affair with an woman were actually talking to Simu-Bots. Those looking for someone of the same sex had a greater chance of talking to an actual person.

When I first heard about the leaked it was definitely intriguing to see was on the leaked contact list. People like Josh Duggar made headlines. The OTM segment also goes in depth the toll the leak had in everyday marriages. 

The part of the segment that resignated with me the most was the whole Bot break down. The website that seems very scummy has a very elequent system: how they accessed the site, what they were looking for and how much did they pay for on the account. 

This algorithm was what insured the affair not the others determination.

As for the issue of internet privacy this is what to expect because there is no privacy on the internet. There is also no way to regulate leaving it as  buyer beware situation.