Everyone feels that privacy is something that they have in their day-to-day lives. But what if I told you that you don't have privacy in places where you think you have it? There are so many ways for everyone's privacy to be stolen, but everyday people don't need to worry about that. We tend to think that only people who are celebrities and are in the public eye need to worry. However, they could not be more wrong.
Juan Enriquez refers to sources threatening our privacy, such as electronic tattoos. He means that an electronic tattoo provides everyone with as much information about you as a regular tattoo would share. After hearing this and how many electronic tattoos there are, it makes me feel that my family and I do not have any privacy anywhere because even at home, I have social media, which is a form of an electronic tattoo. Also, in stores where I thought the cameras were genuinely for security, which they are, but I also felt safe being around them. Now I know that all it takes is for them to photograph me. If I glance at the camera, someone who has access to the camera can find everything about me. Facial recognition is one of the worst because it is getting more advanced and better, which is good, but it actually means it is easier for someone to access your records.
After watching Catherine Crump's Ted-Talk, I feel that the government, while they are endorsing the police departments to have cameras that track everyone's plate numbers all the time they government can still pass laws making the police departments dispose of the plate numbers of people who do not need to be watched. These cameras are a massive violation of privacy that should not be allowed. Not only are they taking photos of people's license plates and then putting them through a machine that spits out the plate so the officers can read it, but also in a space that is supposed to be private. Many years ago, Mike Katz-Lacabe went to his local police station and asked about this camera and the ability to have all those photos of the car and license plate. Mike asked to see what they had of him and came to find that they followed him and could see where he was going and with who. Something that caught me off guard as a viewer was that when Mike saw the photos of his car, they had a photo of him and his two daughters getting out of the vehicle in their own driveway. While watching this video, I wondered why they kept the photos; the reason that they kept the photos is that as storage of the images increases in price, they keep the old photos just in case it is needed, which is how it was for Mike he had not done anything wrong. Yet, they kept all of those photos of him and his car.
So many people think that we are safe and that no one is listening in on our calls or seeing our texts when actually it depends on the service. According to Christopher Soghoian and Apple, if someone has an iPhone and sends a text or calls someone else who has an iPhone, their messages or calls can not be wiretapped. WhatsApp, created by Facebook, also has a security that their messages or calls can not be wiretapped. Not being able to wiretap someone's phone is called encryption. Soghoian said that cell phone companies built their network for surveillance first, which means that if we are on the phone, someone may be listening, including governments, foreign intelligence services, hackers, criminals, and stalkers, unless your network is a Silicon Valley company. A way to protect ourselves from invasions of privacy is for more networks to be like Silicon Valley companies, meaning that more companies should have encryption. While having more companies have encryption will make it harder for police to find criminals, it will be safer for us because it will make it harder for people to hack into our devices.
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