It’s almost ironic that last week I posted a blog about how incredibly fantastic the iPhone 4 is. At the Best Day Foundation, another post of mine, my iPhone 4 was stolen.

It was sitting in my beach bag, inside my small make up bag, and underneath all my makeup; somewhere I thought no one would look.

I honestly have nothing to hide on my phone, or on any other electronic item for that matter, but it’s still a bit nerve-racking to have something of yours stolen.

My iPhone was the first item to ever be really stolen from me. I’ve had people “borrow” my things and not bring them back. I’ve have lost things and just assumed that I have misplaced them. Never has someone directly taken something important from me. It’s like your privacy has been invaded.

Which bring me to to the topic of privacy.

According to merriam-webster.com, privacy is a private matter, obviously. But really everyone has their own definition to the word. Privacy is just one of those words that everyone could disagree about. For example, Mr. Cooper just walked in through the back door of the computer lab. Maybe he came in to scare us into doing our work, or maybe he genuinely cares about our grades, but he probably just came in here to make sure that study hall is on track. Some would call that an invasion of privacy, some wouldn’t.

At this school, the faculty have the ability to confiscate your phone, computer, and can search your whole room without much of a reason. Does that sound like an invasion of privacy? Some would say yes, some would say no. Personally I think that it’s a yes. Who are the school faculty to read every single text you’ve sent or every IM ever sent?I don’t think that’s right of them. When we’re grown up we have laws protecting us from things like that. At a boarding school we don’t. Is that fair? I’m not saying that searches shouldn’t happen. I just think that there should be an incredibly important reason.