I flipped through the smartphone weather app this morning and wanted to see the sun forecast for the weekend. The response I got was to call me where I am. Wait a minute; who are you? my mother? What is the relationship between me and the weather forecast for the location I have already logged into my mobile phone? That's right, that's it.
This is just the latest reminder that we have been collecting data about us, and we obviously gave up giving up. The casualties of this incident are already our privacy. Facebook spent years, allowing developers to not only collect data about their users, but also collect data about their friends. Some advanced services for team applications allow buyers to download all data from their personal workspace, apparently not saying they are doing so. The supermarket knows what you buy and how much. Facebook sold millions of people to Cambridge Analytica through an app called "This is your digital life." Now, Chinese Apple customers have found that all their iCloud data is stored on servers operated by the Chinese government's Internet company GCBD.
Orwell's vision
If all this sounds a bit "big brother", as George Orwell wrote in 1984, as predicted in 1984, perhaps he is right. Of course, we have surpassed his nightmare of the future for 30 years, but there is no doubt that we are receiving attention and have some details. The trouble is that we don't know who.
The next victim may be a fragile concept of democracy. Does Russia attack the West to influence elections? who knows. Does the technology exist to make it possible? Who knows.
What we know is that you can be anyone who wants to join social media; you can say almost anything about anyone without worrying about getting a remedy. Invent a person; say what you like. At least some people will believe it. The result is the growth of hate politics; the erosion of consensus; the ability to understand that others have the right to a different perspective.
So where do we go from here?
There is no doubt that technology is good for us. If they can't afford a washing machine, who wouldn't have a washing machine? It is indeed easier to lick clothes on rocks by the river, although people still have to do this in some parts of the world.
But we need to control ourselves as much as possible. We need to consider what might happen to the information we share, which will weaken our privacy.
What we need to pay attention to is that our phone can track all our actions and turn it off.
We need to consider who will use the information in the social media post, we say that we have a good time at any of the restaurants we happen to be in, and what they will do with it.
We need to spend money on the roads of greengrocers or corner shops or slayers, not supermarkets, where the ever-fading goods record the details of our lives. [Does the supermarket know what size of pants you just bought? What, oh, yes; they know very well.]
We need to think about what we are doing.
We need to figure out what technology can improve our lives and what not.
In short, we need to think about what we are doing and take back control.
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