Privacy in the Information Age: New Technologies, Challenges, and Methods 

Emerging technologies enable pervasive data gathering, processing, and sharing, raising privacy concerns in the information age. This article investigates how social media, data mining, AI, and mass surveillance threaten privacy. These technologies reduce privacy and allow the exploitation of sensitive user data such social interactions, demography, money, health, mobility, and attitudes.

Privacy is essential for self-development, honesty, and independence, according to the report. Mass surveillance limits behavior and decision-making, it claims. The report proposes ways to improve data protection and privacy to overcome these privacy issues.

Utilizing privacy-focused operating systems like Tails and Whonix, harden mainstream OS like Windows, encrypt data, utilize Tor for anonymous surfing, and manage personal information shared online. The study highlights a technical strategy to regaining digital privacy while negotiating large internet corporations' intrusive data practices. It encourages people to be informed privacy gatekeepers against new technology.