Privacy Online & Off

 

Juan Enriquez starts off this video by explaining how tattoos can tell a story without words. Juan Enriquez claims that the things we do every day, which can include using, Facebook Twitter, yelp, cell phone calls, credit cards etc. are considered “electronics tattoos.” He suggests that these tattoos live far longer than us and our immortal. This symbolizes how everything we do on the Internet will be up there forever. He also mentions that facial recognition is also an electronic tattoo, meaning that you can find out anything about a person using facial recognition. This can affect anyone because we are all active online and the things we post are permanent.

The second video explains the truth behind surveillance cameras. Catherine Crump explains that the government and police departments can use surveillance cameras to find out private information about anyone, for example, it can reveal where we go and what car we drive. Automatic plate readers are very common. They capture images of license plates of cars that drive by and put them in a database. This can be helpful to track down any car involved in suspicious activity. 

The third video is about wiretapping. He explains that our phones and network carriers are specifically wired for surveillance. This means that the government or anyone that hacks into the system, can listen in on our phone calls and conversations. Christopher Soghoian encourages us to use tools to protect our privacy. This affects me because I think it is an invasion of privacy. There is a possibility that I could be having a conversation and someone could be listening in on it.

The fourth video is about revenge porn. Darieth Chisolm opens her TedTalk with a horrifying story. She shared that she was about to give a speech to an audience when she had a missed call from her ex-husband. There was a website created that shared multiple nude photos of the speaker while she was asleep. It turns out that her ex-boyfriend created the website to get back at her for ending the relationship. What he did is known as revenge porn. There is data that one in twenty-five women are impacted as a result of revenge porn with suicide rates of 51%. Only 40 states have some type of law regarding revenge porn. We can prevent this by being aware of what we post and the amount of people that have access to it.