Introduction
We live in a world full of evolving technology. Smartphones, computers, iPads, and other forms of technology are all around us. We are constantly on our cellphones, texting, calling or emailing someone(s), however, what a lot of cellphone users do not know is that our messages, phone calls, and entire phones are wiretapped and tracked by the government and anybody that can hack into the surveillance system of telephone companies which is scary. Every piece of technology that we see is tracking our every step of our daily lives whether we want our lives to be tracked or not.
Privacy Concerns
This affects our privacy because if our entire lives are tracked then we can’t protect any private piece of information or conversation. I have to worry about my friends and families lives’ because they are always being tracked as well. What if a hacker, stalker, or killer were to hack into either my phones surveillance system or my house surveillance system and gain critical information about my daily lives and worse, gain information about the layout of my house. This can pose a serious threat to my life, my families’ lives, and my friends’ lives because our lives can and would be at serious danger, and that is scary. I have heard of numerous stories of hackers hacking into house surveillance systems and either speaking from the system to people within the house or plotting to break-in to the house from being able to see the entire layout of the house.
Examples of Privacy Threats
One of the videos, the person discussed the threat of Automatic License Plate Readers that police officers use and are seen on street corners and such. These readers capture images of every passing car and convert that license plate into machine relatable text. With these images, police and government officials are able to see into the lives of every person driving a car which includes what store or place a person is heading and what that person is doing at that particular store or place. The law enforcement also a device called a "StingRay" which can sends tracking signals inside people’s homes to see what cell phones are in that particular home. These high-tech surveillance gears completely invade our personal privacy and can harm us in the most dangerous ways. Our lives are constantly at harm with these high-tech surveillance gears because there is never a moment when a law enforcement or government official isn’t tracking our whereabouts or our conversations with our children, doctors, spouses, friends, etc.
Solutions and Conclusion
A lot of phone companies nowadays have tried to incorporate strict encryption methods to prevent wiretapping and hacking, but it’s still not impossible for people to hack into these encryption methods and get into our lives which should be protected. It’s hard for us to protect ourselves from invasions of our privacy without trashing our phones, computers, ipads, and any other piece of technology we have in our homes but that still wouldn’t protect our privacy because there is technology outside of just our own personal technology that can track our every movements. One idea that was brought up in one of the videos to protect our privacy even slightly is to go to the city councils because local police departments are governed by city councils and propose laws requiring the police to dispose of the data and surveillance of innocent people while allowing the legitimate uses of the technologies to continue. There are good reasons for government officials and law enforcement officers to use technologies to track humans because there are a lot of bad people in this world, but there are also a lot of good people in this world whose lives are at a constant threat every second of the day because of these tracking technologies so while they should be kept at a capacity, these technologies need to be restricted severely so our privacy is protected because at this current moment with technology smothered around us, our privacy is nowhere near protected.
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