Friday, February 17, 2012
1984 Findability?
This new book we're reading is really making me think, which I guess is the point. It was written seven years ago and I've still never heard of this technology. It interests and disturbs me at the same time. But is it really all that different from tracking what we do online? Not really, since people do almost everything online nowadays. It can be good in some ways and bad in others, just like any technology...but the fact that we don't have a say, that it's happening to us automatically, is scary to me. It's coming to the point where almost anyone can find out anything about you with a few clicks of a mouse. It's like something from 1984. And if you haven't read that, you definitely should! It seems to get more and more relevant as technology is developed. Just a few thoughts that surfaced while reading Ambient Findability.
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In my TCOM class, we were always talking about this type of technology that many phones have on them where there's a chip in the phone that is recording every single keystroke of the user. The company didn't disclose the information about the software to its users, so they thought that they had something to hide. The company assured everyone that it was to assure quality in the product, but now many people are petitioning to have it removed from future phones. It sort of sent chills up my spine how Orwellian it all sounded.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it is scary. There's a lot to be said about privacy on the web. Facebook has changed their privacy setting so many times over the past few years to deal with this problem. Now, I'm hearing conspiracy theories that Facebook is selling your information to all kinds of agencies. I don't know how much weight these claims carry, but it is a disturbing thought. They already use your personal information to alter what advertisements you see, so I wonder what else they do with it.
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