Privacy, Surveillance, and the Price of Content

“I just search NBA on website then all the NBA merchandise pop up on my Facebook and social networks”

Before we started the blog, let’s take a look on this video first. It’s trending for awhile and becomes memes.

Privacy is important for everyone. However, we all give this up on social media. As I mention before that nowadays, most of the companies are sharing data to each other. If you don’t believe me, try to search something on Google then look at your social media feed. The merchandise about those will come up and that was creepy. I was talking to my friend about Fifa, then my social media was full of soccer merchandise, EA gaming and gaming gear. Ironically, people want to be privacy in public, but they let the world knows about their activity by “check in” feature on Facebook. Read this article and you will understand more that you are losing privacy since you own a smartphone or social media.

In order to have your social network, you will need an email to start up. This is when you losing your privacy. Email requires your personal detail such as Full name, Phone number and address in order to startup. If somebody can hack the email means they get your personal details and what they can do afterwards with that? There is some positive aspect about government can access our devices because it’s easier to investigate in some cases. For example, terrorism, crime and criminal. But in exchange, all the people are losing their privacy. Do you think it’s worth it?? This article is about Facebook and privacy.

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