There are several scientists and researchers who believe that the integration of the internet into our daily lives is affecting our privacy. One of the biggest concerns deals with companies and the controversial way they are handling our data, mainly by not requiring and receiving consent before releasing personal data to the government and other companies. Further elaborating on this, journalist Ellen Kennerly stresses in her article “Privacy and the Internet” how “the new rules created by the FCC in 2016 that were overturned by the current Congress would have forced ISPs to give consumers the opportunity to ‘opt in’ before collecting personal information…”, thus allowing customers to dictate when companies could “share additional information” about themselves (126). Kennerly’s stance precisely pinpoints the controversiality and necessity of such a requirement. Although it is true that customers might freely give their consent when they agree to the “Terms & Services” of a company or website’s page, it is nonetheless not giving consent to selling our information to other companies. Kennerly highlights how these rules could have served to force ISPs to provide consumers the “opportunity to ‘opt it’ before collecting their personal information,” giving us the the right to make the final judgment call on how we want our information to be handled and distributed. These rules would have helped but were nonetheless overturned by Congress, why? Because of this, companies are now able to toy with all of our personal information without any legitimate consent. These regulations should be examined very closely when we decide where we want to place our personal information as we are now providing it to not just one company but all of their allies which could, potentially, turn around to affect us in other aspects of our lives as well.
The metacommentary in your TRIAC paragraph is found at the beginning by introducing the biggest concern of privacy over the internet as it explains why you argue that the internet affects our privacy. The framing and analysis of the source that is integrated adds to the metacommentary, especially the analysis. The analysis allows the reader to understand why privacy online should be looked into with the rules given to users. And how these rules of privacy online affect everyone online as they agree to handing over their privacy. The metacommentary in the paragraph allows the readers to understand how the internet is affecting our daily lives and privacy from agreeing to the terms and services.