WE CAN SEE YOU!
Data Privacy in the wake of Information Era
Are you fascinated when you see moths swarm a forest fire? Have you ever thought that we're also like insects attracted to the screens of today's technology?
And yeah, just like these moths, humans are also enchanted to gadgets and the World Wide Web; unaware that we're already trapped and gradually being incinerated.
Protecting yourself on the digital world is not as simply as not sharing personal information and deleting one's browsing history. User data in the 21st century is always vulnerable to exploitation that endangers not only our privacy but also our security and of the people surrounding us. Just a single click and ta-dah you've unknowingly exposed yourself to unknown entities; not only from online hackers and scammers but also to the likes of huge conglomerates who would gladly mine your information to make profits out of it and an oppresive government who would use internet surveillance in order to monitor your activities and use it to control you; fueling the engine of their digital dictatorship.
People are either downplaying or ignoring the risk of the vulnerability of data privacy nowadays, saying that the fundamentals of distrust society is unfounded.. but is it really?
Every move you make in the digital world would leave a print.
Mask your identity, monitor your usage and consumption; think twice, thrice or even a million times before you click. It's never too late to protect your privacy.
#StartTheChangeNow #DataPrivacy
Reference links and supplemental readings:
https://www.trendexplorer.com/en/trends/distrust-society/
https://qz.com/1245355/outside-us-philippines-saw-most-facebook-user-data-go-to-cambridge-analytica/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-companies-turn-your-data-into-money?amp=true
https://theatlantic.com/amp/article/552203/