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More Than a Setting: Why Digital Privacy is a Human Right

When we hear the phrase “digital privacy,” we often picture complex encryption, scrolling through endless legal disclaimers, or a cybersecurity expert in a dark room. But in our modern world, privacy is far more than a technical hurdle; it is a deeply human social issue that touches the core of how we live. It is about the quiet dignity of being able to move through the world—searching for answers, talking to friends, or exploring new ideas—without feeling like a hidden audience is constantly scoring and measuring our every move. In an age where our daily lives have migrated online, protecting our data is no longer just about hiding secrets; it’s about protecting our fundamental freedom to grow without being “nudged” by an algorithm.

The challenge of modern life is that we are constantly generating a trail of digital footprints, often without a choice. Our phones track our movements, our apps monitor our habits, and our browsers record our deepest curiosities. We often “consent” to this tracking not because we truly want to, but because it is nearly impossible to participate in modern society—to find a job, go to school, or stay in touch with family—without clicking “Agree.” This creates a lopsided power dynamic where we are highly visible to massive, invisible institutions that know our preferences better than we might know them ourselves. When our data is used to predict our behavior or manipulate our attention, we lose a little bit of our autonomy to systems we can’t even see.

This environment is particularly taxing for young people, who are building their identities in a digital fishbowl. For a teenager, a post or a “like” might feel like a temporary expression of a passing mood, but for a data broker, it is a permanent piece of a profitable profile. There is a painful gap between the casual, human way we use the internet and the cold, permanent way platforms harvest our information. We shouldn’t have to choose between being connected and being private. Protecting digital privacy means ensuring that the next generation has the space to make mistakes, change their minds, and define who they are without a digital shadow following them for the rest of their lives.

Ultimately, privacy is not about having something to hide; it is about having something to protect. It is the foundation of a free and open society. If we want a future where technology serves us rather than the other way around, we need to treat data ethics as a social responsibility. This means pushing for laws that put people before profits and cultivating a culture that values human agency. We must move toward a world where we can enjoy the incredible benefits of being connected without sacrificing the basic human need to simply be left alone.

HAODE (YUKI) CHEN

China has always boasted that the basic labor forces are the most respected and greatest people in the society, which was actually favored and supported from around the 1960s to the 1980s. Yet, as the society becomes globalized and modernized, the so called greatest labor forces are at the risk of being put aside by the society and paid much less attention than other work forces. They usually make the most efforts physically to build the society but enjoy relatively basic or even poor levels of social welfare and financial income as a whole.

Migrate workers, for instance, are among the most representative in this growing trend. They spend more than a third of their life making contributions to the community by experiencing working in different fields and industries, ending up being not eligible to reside legally in these crowded metropolis. Getting an official identity in these big cities has become so important while so difficult that they have been categorized by the local people as customary simple visitors to the cities that are vaguely focused on. Without legal identity to live in the big cities, even if they have helped urbanize the cities to the largest extent, they have to face immense troubles in their daily life, posing significant threats to their own quality of life and the future of their offspring.

Having reached the retirement age, these migrate workers can only rely on their pension to survive if they didn’t manage to accumulate enough wealth in the earlier stages of their life. For the luckiest groups of people, they choose to live in the suburbs of the cities or even in cities around to live peacefully and relatively without financial constraints and concerns for the rest of their life. Nevertheless, things do not turn out this way for the majority of these disadvantaged groups of people. To be specific, they face the problem of not enjoying legal medical coverage over their physical problems as they age since they are not legal residents in the cities. Their future generations don’t have access to tertiary education as those of local people even if they have worked hard enough to build the cities for their life.

In conclusion, while it has to be admitted that admissions and tickets available for people to be legal residents to live in big cities are limited and cannot be granted to each individual, local authorities should try to find a balance to help these people get the most out of their contributions, ensuring a sustainable and fair social system.

Ziluo Cheng

Vietnam may decriminalize drug use

The National Assembly of Vietnam is taking everything into account to cease by legislation to treat drug use as illegal, lowering the private use of illegal drugs from a lawbreaker to an executive offense. The chairwoman of the assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs, Thi Mai mentioned her council had suggested discarding Article 199 of the Criminal Code which promotes two-year-imprisonment of for those who found guilty of illegal drugs. The use of illegal drugs would still be a serious illegal act, subject to death penalty.

Vietnam conveys illegal drug dependency through obligatory drug detoxification institutions, where drug addicts are confined for about two years and five years when it comes to few institutions. The officers in local government keep their list of those drug addicts in their regions and deliver cases to the detoxification institutions at their preference.

The government promotes support groups in the community for previous drug dependents; however, it is only available in Hanoi.

Heroin drugs are the very well-known recreational drug in Vietnam which causes the country to spread HIV because of the shared syringes.

When it comes to prohibiting the illegal drugs in the market, Vietnam has firm laws against it. During the year 2007, eighty five people were convicted a death penalty because of illegal drugs and additional nine illegal drug addicts for the following year.

Mai who is the officer of National Assembly said that the program to failed to completely remove illegal drug operations.

T.P. Nguyen

Interesting Info on Anabolic Steroid Legality in Japan
Japan carries a strict attitude when it comes to eliminating almost every substance on the US scheduled list of drugs. But not with anabolic steroids.
In Japan, private ownership and use of anabolic steroids is permitted by law. But the use of anabolic steroids is illegal in the regulations of many sports during Olympics. There was never been a case of Japanese athlete being caught in Olympics using prohibited drugs. Therefore, it is believed that the rate of steroid use in Japan is lower compared to other countries.
Since the ownership of steroids is authorized by law, there are users of steroids who purchase online. Data about comprehensive medicinal figures and steroid series are also available on the internet but the accuracy of these contents cannot certainly provide a formal assurance.
You can bring into Japan the AAS available for a two-month-supply. The catch is that you are not allowed to bring medical syringes but if you can find them in local areas, you are not restrained to stick away.
J. Tanaka

Take a sip of tea, sit relaxed on chair and think for a while how far Twitter has come since its release. It is difficult to conclude your impressions in a single day without referencing internet, TV or radio stations.

If you wanted to find some old friends through internet then search on “FACEBOOK”

If you want to search any information on any of the keywords then “GOOGLE” it

If you wanted to share your random thoughts with the world or you wanted to deliver some interesting news to the world then “TWEET” it.

This social networking site has more than one million active users today. You would be shocked to know that almost half of them logging in everyday. Twitter has changed the way how news can be delivered or shared with the people.

We are not saying that Twitter is the only social networking Company across the world but it has certainly reached a level that cannot be attained by everyone.

Nowadays, it has become difficult to volunteer for serving our community due to our busy schedules. This requires our ability of effective time management to take out some time for community service.

Volunteering for community service is not just for doing good for others, but also a wonderful sources of gaining enormous benefit for one’s own self. It adds such traits to our personality which can’t be learnt through books, but can only be attained through practical experience of serving others by volunteering ourselves. The experience not only improves your own behavior and personality, but also positively affects your family and people around.

It boosts your confidence tremendously as you get a comfortable platform to make new friends, meet different people of the community, get opportunity to learn new skills and even get help in the advancement of your career.

The act of volunteering also helps in strengthening one’s mental and physical health while enhancing one’s self-esteem, confidence level and satisfaction from life. It certainly blesses you with a natural feeling of accomplishment while adding a sense of pride and positivity in your personality.

Tim So

Impacts of Globalization on Asian Developing Economies

Developing countries in Asia come after the influence of Taiwan and South Korea to economic growth. The “developmental state model” has extended over a large area of Southeast Asia and China with some changes made. Even though it is labeled that these Asian countries have the same strong authoritarian system like Taiwan and Korea, it is seldom known that the outward circumstance they experienced in the 1990s was not similar from 1960s.

The most important major change ten years ago was globalization which gave extreme influence on the policies of nation, financial status and the development of economic institution. As a result, the action and process of the growth of state model for the second line NICs (newly industrializing countries are issues to different outcome caused by globalization.

During the year 1997, when Asia experienced a financial difficulty, it became an opportunity to take another assessment to the model of the state’s development. The financial crisis serves as attest of globalization to the model and the various effect of financial instability on East Asian developing countries emphasize that the globalization might give them different challenges and the cause of different outcomes, given that they all acquire the developmental state model.

As an advance messenger of industrialization, the challenges that Taiwan and Korea encountered in coping with globalization may serve as a lesson learned for other developing countries in Asia.

W.Chao