Blog Post Privacy

 In the first Ted Talk, the man is speaking about electronic tattoos.  What he means when speaking is that with the way technology works today people are tweeting, blogging, vloging, and posting on social media; which causes their electronic tattoos.  Even though they are not permanently on your body, they are following you everyday and every time someone posts on social media.  It can affect someone’s career path, someone’s opportunity for getting into college, or someone’s opportunity for getting a job.  These people are watching your every move.  Your GPS, your credit score, they can track you, etc.  For people nowadays it is getting really hard to escape their past.  They can be exposed online for stuff they said 10+ years ago, even if they had changed as a person and we’re young and stupid.  Everything someone says on social media will then follow them for the rest of their life.  

In the second video, the woman is talking about how surveillance equipment is becoming so evolved.  It is gathering local police departments to have surveillance equipment that can obtain vast information on each and every one of us if they have to, which was never previously possible.  With this new surveillance technology; if a person is driving their car around the United States it can reveal if they see a therapist, or go to an AA meeting.  Basically whatever the police departments want to see on people they are watching.  These issues can affect many different sorts of people because their private lives are being exposed to people who work in the police department that they don’t even know.  For example, if I was driving to see my therapist one day the police could see that, and if they had something they needed to ask me about they could see where I am and meet me there.  A lot of places for people in the United States, depending on what they consider and “safe space” is a safe space for people.  Nothing should be able to break their “safe space” even if it is the police.  What we can do to protect ourselves from invasions of privacy like this, is to try and put a stop to all of this new forms of technology being used on day to to day people, and try and catch some of our country's biggest criminals, or people committing such heinous crimes in our country like; human trafficking, murder, nuclear weapons, etc.