I remember years and years ago sitting in the $2.00 movie theatre with my mom watching the movie Eagle Eye, which was a Big Brother type government device that spied on everyone doing everything. At such a young age I really viewed this movie as a thing that would never really happen. But the older and older I get the more I realize that this nightmare has become a reality.
Being paranoid could be called silly for law-abiding, run-of-the-mill citizens, but here we are paranoid. Paranoid to Google something that could put us on a watch-list, paranoid to say the wrong thing over the phone, and paranoid just to be. In Kirn's article he said something that really stood out to me: "Lose your privacy, lose your free will–a chilling though." I had never really equated my privacy to my free will, but there is no denying they go hand and hand.
As we watched the short film about "The Grain" and I read these pieces, I thought about my digital marketing internship this summer and began to wonder if my coding methods that I used were, in fact, invading the privacy of others. I tried to find ways to justify it to myself: "well Facebook did it for me, I just chose what I wanted or Google already does it anyways, I am just taking advantage of it. But now the more and more I think about it I wonder if I am trying to act as this Eagle Eye and watch over everyone on the internet so I can help my boss sell some insurance.
On the note of the Grain and the dangers are not just to the people and giving them a perfect memory, but it would also scare me to know where all the data is stored. No one would even have a lick of privacy.
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