People are paying for
digital services with their personal information. This is only becoming worse.
I am talking about smartphones, social media and online games. You pay with
your privacy, whether you want to or not, because you have ‘’no choice’’. You
just follow the crowd. Many people have an iPhone, use Twitter, play Wordfued
or Draw Something. They also agree to a huge list of conditions (which almost
nobody reads), and give away all the
personal information to a few American organizations who can do whatever they
want to with your information. You tell them everything; who you are, what you
like, who you know, what kind of music you listen to, and the movies you watch.
But also; who you are mailing, what you write in a mail, your location and where
you are going to. You tell them everything.
In the meantime you
are being filmed by security cameras and other iPhones. You are in a video on
YouTube, being tagged on Facebook, or someone is mentioning you in a blog or
Tweet. All this information will be saved, exchanged and even sold behind your
back.
The online privacy is
getting more and more public. I am writing this blog post to make you aware of this
situation, because one thing seems certain: privacy as we know it today, will
no longer exist in the future.
More tips to secure
your privacy are coming soon. The next post will be about the privacy on
Facebook.
