Through the use of currently available online tools and search facilities, ordinary users can easily acquire personal information about others. In fact, anyone who has Internet access can, via a search engine such as Google, find information about us that we ourselves might have had no idea is publicly available there.

(a) Is it true that individual privacy is threatened by the use of search engines? 

(b) Give some examples how that might occur. 

(c) Do individuals/hackers from anywhere on the globe access personal information of citizens of other countries? 

(d) Give some examples illustrating that has occurred. (be specific and provide support for your answer) Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses. (comprehension)