Reaction to Ted Talks! Blog Post #5

After watching the Ted Talks, I am scared! I feel uneasy, and I honestly feel a little unsafe. 

Beginning with the first Ted Talk, the speaker Juan Enriquez says "Lets take four subjects that obviously go together, big data, tattoos, immortality, and the Greeks." 

Initially I was confused, like anyone would be, but after listening and understanding the connection between the four points, I have gained a different perspective on privacy. 

Juan Enriquez

What happens if these platform turn out to be electronic tattoos?

What if all of us are close to immortality? Electronic tattoos will live much longer than our bodies will and we have to be fully aware of that fact. 

Juan uses the Greek Gods in place of words that we use and think about as humans daily. He uses Sisyphus for reputation, Atalanta for remembering the purpose, and Narcissus to not fall in love with your own reflection.

Jorge Luis Borges says "How else can one threaten, other than with death?"

Well the response is, we can now be threatened with immortality. 

The second Ted Talk Video was presented to our class by Catherine Crump. This Ted Talk gives us information about surveillance equipment and how easy the government can see exactly what we are doing when we are doing it. 

The government has the power to gain a detailed description of everything about you. 

Revealed Data Base From the Government

The techniques that the law enforcement has been using are unlimited and will be used at some point. We have no privacy due to location information, surveillance equipment, and automatic license plate readers that capture images of every passing car. 

The third Ted Talk was given by Christopher Soghoian. He talks about how computing has changed everything!

"The telephone companies have built surveillance features into the very core of their networks."

When we are having simple calls between our significant others, parents, children, or even doctors, someone could be listening such as any government across the world, or anyone that breaks into the surveillance system. It is that easy. 

The governments want full access to everything and when tech companies change settings by default, that is what makes them mad. 

Criminals, terrorists, drug dealers or bad people, it does not matter, we all use the same technology. If their messages and phone calls can be intercepted, ours can too. 

In conclusion, we have less and less privacy with more technology advancing. The government has power that we as citizens need to be aware of. 

Our privacy is limited and we need to be careful about what we post for the internet to see because once it has been posted to the internet, it will be there forever, even if you delete it off of YOUR page.