“The report shows the breathtaking scale and invasive nature of the consumer data market and how that market directly enables wholesale surveillance of people. The data includes not only where you’ve been and who you’re connected to, but the nature of your beliefs and predictions about what you might do in the future. The report underscores the grave risks the purchase of this data poses, and urges the intelligence community to adopt internal guidelines to address these problems.”
This is a small passage from the article of this weeks reading. After reading the article it is clear as day that there really is a big issue at large. The fact that big companies and the government is not only allowed access to our personal information but they can use it for their own weird advantage, is concerning enough. The fact that our data is evident enough to predict our future and what we may or may not be capable of doing is strange. But what is more strange is the question, or what they will do with that information? Obviously it’s not accurate but with whatever answer or concussion is given, what does that mean for us and what does that mean for them?
I think it’s easy to forget that we have rights, even when it comes to sharing space on the web. We sign up for social platforms and to browse the internet, not have that come with a risk and worry in exchange. We’ve come a long way within the internet days and I wonder what that means as time goes more and more on? I think it’s important now than ever to keep spreading awareness, making it public, keeping conversations going, and doing on our research on ways we can really protect ourselves on the internet that can result in a healthy fight back against what is happening to us.
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