Privacy
Privacy remains a prevalanet issue in our modern connected world. It seems like every week there is a new data leak that threatens the personal information of millions. We have seen this in social media with the Cambridge Analytica scandal that Facebook was involved in. There's also the concept that every smart device with a microphone is listening to whatever we are saying. How many times have you started talking about something, only to see advertisements for it on Facebook and Instagram the next time you open it? We can blame data brokers such as Acxiom for this, who collect our data and find out our interests using their tech, and then sell it off to third party companies to target us in their advertisting.
Data leaks and data mining aren't the only threat to privacy. With more and more people become viral, there's very little anonymity left in the world. People who go viral are frequently doxxed (have their identiy and personal information exposed) and are harrassed. We see this happening with people showing up to YouTuber's houses and Twitch streamers being swatted (fake threats being called into police).
Source:
Nocera, Joe. “'The Wild West of Privacy'.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 Feb. 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/opinion/nocera-the-wild-west-of-privacy.html.
Data leaks and data mining aren't the only threat to privacy. With more and more people become viral, there's very little anonymity left in the world. People who go viral are frequently doxxed (have their identiy and personal information exposed) and are harrassed. We see this happening with people showing up to YouTuber's houses and Twitch streamers being swatted (fake threats being called into police).
Source:
Nocera, Joe. “'The Wild West of Privacy'.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 Feb. 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/opinion/nocera-the-wild-west-of-privacy.html.
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