Blog #4 Privacy, Online and Off

Almost everyone is always constantly on their phones or on some sort of electronic. There are so many risks to your privacy every time you are online. In the first TED talk, he talks about how our phones are like electronic tattoos. Facial recognition has become very impressive and can easily detect different faces just through a photo. Apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter use technology to easily track people's searches and what they have been doing. Thinking about how companies can easily track all my stuff is scary to think about because they have access to all of my accounts and nothing is private anymore. 

Once something is posted online, it is out there forever, even if it was deleted. But once you are constantly online, your internet presence grows more and more and the internet knows more about you. I'm sure that everyone has had a scary experience of talking about a topic and then your phone shows you exactly what you are talking about. That is how developed AI and the internet is today. The 2nd and 3rd TED talk touch on security with license plates and our cars. There is so much software that can detect where we are at all times. The government also has access to all of our phone calls and can hear everything we are saying. Which is also scary to think about. 

The government should be reassuring us that our data is being protected and isn't easily accessible to hackers. They should also be actively making sure that our data is actually private. I think the government could also be more transparent with their access to our data and assuring us that is it not going to be used in a negative way. This affects everyone a lot because everyone provides data for everything online, even if it is not necessarily something super important but everything is tracked. There should be more protection on everyone's data because you never want it to get into the wrong hands and it could be dangerous for the person involved.

These TED talks have made me really see the dangers of technology and having my data online especially if the government doesn't protect me in the ways that they could.