I watched a series of TED talks that focus on your online privacy.Privacy is the most vexing and controversial topic of the millennial digital age. Your information used to be private.
Moreover, I learned that what you post on the internet is there forever, regardless if you delete it 0.001 seconds later, and for anyone to see. "It's like a permanent tattoo," said Juan Enriquez. Enriquez discussed the permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy.
This being said, NOTHING is private on the Internet.
Whether it's a photo of you and your friends, a blog post about french fries, your credit card information, your GPS, your home address... it's out there for anyone to find and either use or steal.
The internet is an electronic tattoo and it follows you everywhere!
The 1st TED talk described the Internet as an "electronic tattoo" that can't be undone or erased because once you press send, it will remain in channels for people to discover and find, even if you may think it's deleted. There may be information about yourself that you don't even know about or may not be aware of. There is always something people like and dislikes about themselves on the Internet and it sucks knowing that the information we may not like can't be permanently deleted.
The fascinating thing that caught my attention was face recognition on iPhones. Face recognition on mobile phones is 84-94% accurate, which is a high percentage knowing that your phone can tell you the difference of people with names in the photo you've just taken. "It's getting hard to hide from all of this," said Enriquez. In addition, it not only gets that person's name but it also captures their identity and records.
Face.com has about 18 billion faces that they have recognized within photos that have been posted through various social media platforms and anyone can search for you.
Another TED talk that intrigued me was the one with Catherine Crump. She talked about the automatic license plate reader that police use to detect where you go, when you go, and with whom. These cameras are innocuously placed around America to catch known criminals. They catch every passing car and covert your license plate data into machine-readable text to check background information and to see if that person has done something bad.
This can hurt the rest of us because police are not only trying to track the "mean" guys, but they are also tracking and getting more information from people who are doing the right things and are far from being in the wrong.
Nonetheless, when the police capture this data, the government can also control and capture this data. They track your every move without you even realizing it.
In all, after viewing these informative TED talks, I've learned more about my privacy than I ever have before. I learned that pretty much anything and everything is not private anymore, whether you post it or someone else posts it.
I am now a lot more aware of my online privacy, the data that's collected about me, and the potential risks of what it could do me. I will make it a goal of mine to be more careful about what I personally post on the Internet.
Check out this link to watch a video about Internet Privacy with ABC News.
Nonetheless, when the police capture this data, the government can also control and capture this data. They track your every move without you even realizing it.
In all, after viewing these informative TED talks, I've learned more about my privacy than I ever have before. I learned that pretty much anything and everything is not private anymore, whether you post it or someone else posts it.I am now a lot more aware of my online privacy, the data that's collected about me, and the potential risks of what it could do me. I will make it a goal of mine to be more careful about what I personally post on the Internet.
Check out this link to watch a video about Internet Privacy with ABC News.
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