As cell phones grow in popularity and technological capabilities, we seem to grow more and more dependent upon them, putting more and more of our lives’ details and secrets onto the tiny hard drives of our mobile devices.
 
 The closer these devices come to being computers, the more we treat them as such, putting our personal information into them for various uses and reasons. Just like computers, our PDA’s have memories, and they store the information we enter into the screens, from credit card numbers to schedules and calendars to private conversations via text message. At the time we have these conversations and enter this information, we think we’re doing it in complete privacy, but what we might not be thinking about is the fact that this information doesn’t disappear when it leaves the screen. It is stored on the phone for months, even years after the fact.
 
 With so much personal information available in such a compact device, cell phones open the door for invasions of privacy like no other device before them ever has. Computers might leave us vulnerable to invasion of privacy in a lot of ways, but because that fact is so prevalent, people tend to use computers more conscientiously than cell phones. We don’t always think about the fact that cell phones leave our information just as vulnerable, if not more vulnerable, than computers do.
 
 When taking advantage of all the great technologies our cell phones have to offer, it’s important to keep in mind the fact that all the information we put into them is readily available to anyone else who comes along and picks up the device. Whether it’s a nosy spouse or a stranger who finds it dropped on the side of the road.

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