Technology against Privacy

Today’s technologies allow us to be communicated all the time. Social networks like Facebook keep us informed of what all our friends do. For example, where they live, who they hang out with, what they like, who they are dating, and their personality. Also when we use this type of networks we show the world everything we do, even if we rather keep some things to ourselves.

Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are a platform to express yourself and who you are. Sometimes because of the overuse of these, we may find ourselves without a private life. Everyone, no matter if he or she is a stranger, can access our information and know everything about of lives. Publishing every single thing we do, includes a big risk for our safety. Today, there are a lot of kidnappers that look up for girls or for anyone on Facebook and study their lives in order to kidnap them. We should be very care and think twice before we publish a photo or information about us because we don’t know who might see it. Even though, we think only our friends will look at what we do, there are hackers that can access the network.

This type of technologies recently developed is a “double-edged sword”. For example certain GPS that can track you down in a matter of seconds, or cameras on the streets, chips or sensors that know what you are doing and where you at every second. The use of all these “helpful” technology attacks our privacy. I remember we discussed in class a book called Nineteen Eighty Four. In this book, there was Big Brother watching everyone 24/7. It was a futuristic book, but today we are really close to that world. I think this is also a global issue because in the future we will need to create new systems to protect our privacy and our information.