MM52: Surveilance

Summary 

This article talks about how people behave and interact with their specific life-spheres. For instance people may behave differently dependent on who they interact with. This seems familiar with the Hawthrone Effect which covers similar grounds. This would cover the fact that people represent themselves as differently dependent on who they would be with. This article also covers the privacy side of social media and how having your parents as friends makes people seem like they are being observed. This article also coves Data Mining and how Facebook would use our data to try and find fitting advertisements. They have also conducted an experiment with the data and had done this in secret to see the effects. As it turns out it had effected the users emotionally. And this covers Edward Snowden's whistleblow about the US Government are seeking surveillance around the internet. 

Are you bothered by people tracking your online movements? Is it a small price to pay for the benefits of a life online?

The benefits of this would only benefit the governments. However this data that they are seeking could be stolen by hackers or sold to companies so that they could use this to try and promote their content to the right people. Having to accept this change could potentially be bad as there are trolls who wouldn't intentionally mean to say rude things. However this could be misinterpreted to the extent that it could cause issues. This isn't even a small price to pay. Although this could promote good behaviour to a small extent. People may be more likely to go against this. An example of this would be the Xbox One's Kinect being always on at the announcement. Many of its fans considered this to be invasion of privacy since it would be a camera that would always stay on as long as the console is turned on. As well as that, this Kinect incident was further ranted about due to the fact that the Xbox One had to also be always online which lead to speculation about them spying on their customers. This was later on removed and if this was stopped from a small fraction of the population annoyed about this then the Surveillance could be just the bigger version of it. It may sound like a small price but it just removes the freedom aspect of the internet which makes it frustrating for an audience to enjoy the internet. So in conclusion I would be bothered by the fact that people could track my movement. What makes things more difficult is that hackers could use this to make matters worse so this problem about surveillance is further supported.