In this day and age, nothing is really private anymore. We continue to be tracked and identified, even without us knowing it and even when we think we have turned off all our connections to the rest of the world. A new campaign has started for a potential product in the Off Pocket, a pouch that will block signals when you put your phone in it. Simple solutions, like turning the phone off, won't work anymore. Now we need to buy a separate product just to protect our privacy that we should already have. The pouch itself works like a Faraday Cage, which is used to protect equipment from lightning. Faraday Cages block the radio waves from the phone as well. This isn't even the first product to be introduced that can do this; Faraday bags by Disklabs have options for cell phones as well as laptops, and the Blokket is a pouch you can order online to block signals as well.
How have we come to this? We now have to pay for our own privacy? I don't think this is what we should be progressing towards; as necessary as it is in our modern society, we should work towards eliminating this problem entirely. All our info is out there for companies to use for their own commercial interests, and we have voluntarily given it out to them. One way to start showing intolerance for this is to look to the future; we may have made mistakes in giving out info in the past, but we can learn from those mistakes. We can stop giving out unnecessary info; make sure to read to see if info is actually required for whatever you're doing. Make sure that you trust the source you're giving your information to. Information may be a big industry, but we can move towards slowing and stopping it.
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The Blokket is a good idea, but I agree...we shouldn't need it. We shouldn't have to pay for our own privacy. People need to stop giving away their personal information so freely, and realize the terms and conditions of the sites they're posting it to. I think it's scary that "We continue to be tracked and identified, even without us knowing it and even when we think we have turned off all our connections to the rest of the world". Hopefully the Blokket can help with this!
ReplyDeleteWe should stop giving out unnecessary information, but usually they are collected by programs in a secret way at the background. Also, who will ever read all the terms and services mentioned when you are installing, all everyone did was next->next->next->install->done in 10seconds.
ReplyDeleteI agree that not enough people understand how their personal information is used online after signing up for a website. I liked this informative post.
ReplyDeleteI never really considered that things would get to the point where we would have to pay to keep all our information private. It makes me wonder how much further this will go and what the future of privacy is going to be.
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