As if the citizens of the US aren’t already over-controlled by internet companies, advertisers, phone companies, employers, law enforcement, cable companies and oh yeah, those smart meters, it seems like they’re affecting our kids too. Kids are being introduced to social media surveillance and they don’t seem to understand the problem, which makes sense, and by the time they grow up, they’ll never have lived in a time period where they didn’t know everything they were doing.
In 1984 walks, Gatica, Minority Report and Vannevar Bush’s concept of “recording a life” or life-log (read about Bell Labs and its concept). In the near future, not only will you have to worry about your smartphone spying on you, but his car will too, every gadget you own to make his life easier will reveal his every move. Your life is hereby registered, deal with it? Now about our children, some say they shouldn’t expect privacy, and since they’ve never known it, why should they care? Well that’s it, not only do they not care, they are getting old enough to vote.
Now, there was an interesting privacy issue that caught my attention, yes, another, an article titled; “California school district hires company to monitor students’ social media,” by Michael Martinez, posted on CNN September 15, 2013. The school is doing this to prevent bullying, but I imagine in the future will be used to see who posts during school hours to catch kids doing that, or even who logs in during school hours, from there it will be a preconditioned next generation reality that “the authorities” have a right to look at their social networks, and they are at all times.
Judging by the movements of law enforcement, the FBI, the NSA, that’s already happening, your privacy is gone, how does that make you feel? Anyway, just think now in the event that you are innocent but suspect a crime, all that surveillance is proof that you didn’t do it. But if you have a tendency to misbehave, those social media posts can condemn you, be used against you, or like I said, in some rare cases, used to prove that you weren’t there and didn’t.
Some parents say they like the idea of the school monitoring their children, why? Well, they don’t have either, which means they’re handing over some of their parenting responsibilities to the state (so to speak, really just the school for now), but this is problematic because we already have a problem raising our children. country. But that my friends is for another topic and article. Until then, consider all this and think about it.
