The Fate of the State
This week i would like to talk about metadata and privacy.
Anything that has ever been typed on the Internet will stay there forever. You can delete it any times you want, but that information is there in a form of metadata, and it will be there. Which makes us question the concept of privacy on Internet.
Daniel Solove states that metadata is "envelope information because it is akin to an envelope we send a letter in - and the letter itself is the content information". Metadata is very important as it contains every single part of the shared data.
Metadata allows us to see inexplicit information explicitly, the prevalence of metadata allows people and organisations to view private information and use that information to their own advantages. This is clearly seen in the documents Edward Snowden has shown in the relation to the NSA. That documents included recording telephone conversations, monitoring users of social media, tracking people's locations. Nothing is no longer private over the Internet.
With the merge of new technologies such as google glass or even updating old media , it creates more issues than solving them. It allows us to track others and we are being tracked as well. Evgeny Morozov in his paper states "citizens take on the role of information machines that feed the techno-bureaucratic complex with our data" . Everything we put online is constantly traced.
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