Privacy, Online & Off
Internet nowadays can be considered both a blessing and a danger if used with bad intent. After watching the videos in our classroom blog post, I was able to identify a few issues that were raised from those videos about the internet and privacy. The first video by Juan Enriquez, states that the internet, more specifically, Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and many others is somewhat like an electronic Tattoo.
The First really dangerous issue I realized was how iPhones could take a picture of a person, and it could show all the data such as names, profiles, and everything it could find on the internet about this person. I believe this to be considered very scary because if used with bad intent, someone could find all your information and either sell it or do something with it, without you even knowing.
Juan Enriquez also mentions how close we could be to immortality because our image and data from the internet will live longer than our bodies, and he mentions 4 rules, the first would be "just be careful of what you post" which I believe it is something imperative to do specially around the teens to adult because it could not only influence your life by maybe making colleges not be interested in you because of something harmful or badly viewed that was posted to even getting yourself fired from a job because of a certain post. Another rule that really caught my attention was the third rule he mentions, which was basically to avoid getting distracted by "golden apples" more specifically, avoid twitting or posting about something that is really not worth your time, maybe is an argument or just something that could negatively affect you afterward.
The second video I watched that I thought was really important to mention was done by Catherine Crump, in her video, she mentions a few things that I really thought It was important for me to write about such as mass surveillance. Today the government could know what you are doing or where you are going by you just driving your car, this is possible because there are so many cameras around streets and all over the U.S., which makes privacy not really as private. Crump states that today the government could have pictures and information about you that they do not necessarily need, that is only because they save the information in case they do need it one day. She gave examples about hoe Mike did nothing wrong, but the police had pictures of him, the people he was with, and more only by utilizing an automatic license plate reader.
All of the videos had something interesting to share about how our privacy is being interfered with, either because of wired phones that analyze our calls for security purposes, to how someone could ruins someone else's life by posting explicit pictures on the internet, to even emails that along the years could tell who someone is or how they act. What I have learned form these videos, is that we should really be careful of what we post, who we sent things to or even how we act in the internet.
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