This is the Information Age, the age of gathering information. People are introduced to all types of information from print and broadcast media, and they themselves are the object of information collected on an increasing scale. Computers have be come so entrenched in people's lives that they have come to take computers for granted, and usually stop to complain on occasions when these machines fail them. Computers collect our paychecks, pay our bills, dispense our …showed first 75 words of 2286 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2286 total…key to access a person's computer or telephone, but they must have a court order before they can use the key to tap into a person's computer. People are leaving their privacy in the hands of the government. The issues of privacy and the consumer, privacy and the workplace, and privacy and medical records have forced the government to investigate encryption as a way of deterring the invasion of personal privacy in the Information Age.