From Silence to Surveillance: What Happened to Privacy?
Privacy has been one of those things in our life that has definitely gone through a lot of transformation over the years and it has always been one of those particular things that has definitely had its importance but slowly with time it has lost a lot of its value and it is no longer something that gets respected because of the lifestyle that we have actually got developed into in the modern world.
In the past, privacy was always one of those particular things that used to exist in one way or another, and it was also respected to a very big extent, and people also never really thought much about it because it was always something that got the actual amount of value that it required and deserved as well.
But now it is completely a different story as people need to be fighting for their rights to have that privacy in their own life, which has made it somewhat like a privilege that they can have access to only if there are situations that are going to benefit them in such a way that they can make it an existence in their life.
The transformation of all of this is something that is a result of how we are actually leading our modern lifestyle and the way digital platforms and social media is dominating almost every single aspect of our life which has got itself integrated with everything that we have access to and that has definitely corroded privacy to a very big extend and also nearly change its definition as well.
Every single thing that we do and interact and all of our actions as well as our choices and everything that we can even imagine is definitely something that has converted into data for companies in the modern world which they are using to be targeting us in a better manner so that they can be having a better shot at selling their product or utilising us in some other way which is going to be having some sort of benefit to them.
The data collection aspect is so normal in the modern world that it is going to be visible in every single thing that we do right from using any kind of application on our mobile phones or just checking for some reviews online of a particular product that we think of buying along with the social media content that we are consuming which is also served to us with the help of an algorithm that is built specifically to serve us specific content.
Consent is something that has lost its meaningfulness in the modern age. It is something that does not really play a massive role in terms of having any kind of choice as well. After all, moral as we are, the source of data which every single organisation and the world requires from us, which is why we have also normalised all of this to a very big extent, because we have understood that the system is designed in this manner only.
It is not only on the digital platform where privacy is something that is next planted to a very big extent but it is also visible around us in existence as well which includes some sort of surveillance which is given the logic of been necessary for national security and these kind of things and up towards a lot more confusion to have that line define between intrusion and actual privacy.
The way social media platform today operate his in such a manner that the more you are going to be sharing an exposing yourself to the internet in the more engagement is what you are going to receive which feels like a kind of reward and that is something which has made people tell a lot of stories and also have certain opinions which definitely would have not been done if that was not the case and all of these things have raised even more concerns over privacy as company is continue to exploit these metrics in a very gross manner.
The next upcoming generation is already notice in all of these things and they would believe that all of this is pretty normal but the people who have seen all of this transformation about how privacy was something that was scared about so much in the past and now it has lost it's complete meaning would actually know the actual psychological shift that has happened in terms of the minds and that people have and also the real life consequences that people are facing as well.
The legality of privacy is something that is also not very clearly defined and it is also something that is filled with a lot of loop poles that is what gets it exploited even more and people are getting more aware about privacy and the way it is been Bridge everything will day with the help of many companies and their applications and the way they are extracting data and especially the way there utilising the data as well which has seen many people raising concerns and also governments trying to act on it.
But ultimately, there has not been much that has helped the cause; on the other hand, it has definitely made all of the aspects related to privacy much more like a luxury that people have if they even have it within themselves, because it is something that definitely is no longer a very easily available thing, which should have been that way. After all, even if some applications and platforms advertise that they are going to be providing you full privacy with cy, it is also something that has just been done in order to attack customers rather than actually implementing things like that.
In the modern world privacy is definitely nearly dead because no one really actually acts on it and people don't really respect boundaries especially the companies who are trying to get their data in one way or the other to just track them so that they can be pushing relevant advertisements or something that day feel is going to be giving them something valuable which has made privacy something that is slowly losing it's charm.
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