The statement above gives us a great picture of todays society. Its a society in which discretion, privacy and safety are at the top of the list when it comes to the needs of todays public. Privacy has always been a feature in the lives of humans, take for instance the door at the front of your house. An invention made to keep out peeking eyes or unwanted intruders from your personal space. That very same need for safety is a trait that is still embossed on todays society.
New technologies such as cameras and recording devices have allowed the general public to have an even higher sense of security about them. But how far can this technology be taken? Is this technology that was meant to keep us safe actually being used against us?
Living in the 21st Century we are used to seeing CCTV cameras dotted all over the country that are constantly monitored. When i think about my own privacy its only then that i realise that in-fact i have a lot less privacy that i actually thought. The introduction of new technologies means that our whole lives are constantly being monitored, checked and followed. Our personal details are on file all over the place and easily accessed, and its all down to the very same technologies that were supposed to make our lives safer and more private.
Identity fraud is a familiar crime within modern society, another being credit card fraud. These are crimes that are steadily rising in frequency as the advancements in technology rise. It lead me to question whether or not our lives were truly more private before major advancements in surveillance technologies etc.? Primitive societies seemed to have more privacy than we do today, this can be seen as a direct implication of having a society in which handing out personal details and suchlike over social networking sites for example is an all too frequent occurance.
As i have said in previous blogs, it is time to stop and re-evaluate the impact that we are having on our own societies.
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