Friday, 4 September 2015

Internet Privacy
I recently read an article by NBC about the truth about internet privacy. It discussed how the government is tracking every little thing you do; which stores you go to, how fast you're driving at any given time, and of course where, what time you get home every day, what time you wake up, and even your heart rate.  All this information is available to the government at the touch of a key, also making it easily accessible to hackers.  What's my standpoint? I would think it's obvious - no individual nor group of people no matter who they are, should have access to that much information about your daily life, even when you're offline, with that much ease.  I know at this point its unavoidable, but that shouldn't stop anyone from putting their foot down to this level of distorted privacy.  We can start by turning off location services more often when we don't need it, and degrading to a lower intelligence phone - I'm not saying buy a Nokia brick-of-a-phone, just something that does everything you need it to without excess intelligence - and being more cautious when using free public WiFi, as it's easy as pie for a hacker to mimic the WiFi signal and slide through the privacy barrier of your phone or device.  I know that at this point its too late to put a stop to all this creepy madness, but I'm gonna do what I can to limit how much personal information is swimming around in the cloud.

No comments:

Post a Comment