Pattern Of Life Analysis

Although a memory may deteriorate over the span of years or even decades, a photograph will last a lifetime. Images are more than an object to have for safe keeping. In his article, “We Are A Camera,” Nick Paumgarten discusses the uprising of the popular recording device known as the GoPro. This device is used to record events and experiences from different perspectives, whether that is from underwater or zip lining through a forest in a first-person view. Moreover, videos and photography allow people to capture images to reminisce about past experiences, to share these moments with others, and even remember those whom you have lost.

5 Ways You Give The Government Control” written by Kenneth Coats shows how the devices we use daily slowly take over individuals lives. Coats states, “Today, most people in the United States carry a mobile phone that accompanies them wherever they go. We use them for everything...This essentially makes them the perfect tracking and bugging devices”. Although electronic devices are known to be safe, they allow outside people to figure out individuals personal life. Due to the need for devices such as cell phones, each individual has a high chance of being socially stalked once in their lifetime. Coats then states, “Not only do intelligence agencies gather information via mobile companies, but… your phone can be hacked using spyware. Even if your phone is turned off, it can be remotely accessed to recorded conversations and take photographs”. This issue causes a panic due to the wide spread of inappropriate pictures and private conversations in one's life. Even though technology is viewed as a privileged, it is also taking away people's lives without their

Technology is apart of mostly everyone’s life and daily schedule, but often people fail to realize the fact that the government has the ability to monitor everything someone does through these devices. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, a futuristic government spies on their citizens through technology found all throughout their homes. The government used secret microphones, telescreens, and the thought police, a group in charge of finding rebels against the party, in order to monitor what people say and think. There are many examples of this in today’s society: Amazon’s Alexa, Samsung Smart televisions, and social media apps. Amazon’s Alexa and Samsung Smart Televisions are voice recognition systems

In “Privacy under Attack,” the authors discuss some potential ways of how our privacy could be in danger or stolen by companies or accessible by administration and corporations. According to the authors, some ways that our privacy could be in danger are first through video records and picture taken by traffic cameras and surveillance cameras for us. Second through illegal “wiretaps” by the government that could hear our conversations. Third, our privacy and personal data could be “monitored by corporations through the role of club cards, raffles, or refunds that outside companies’ collection of data about us can then be sold without noticing, given consumers the optional to search for the box on any frame to indicate they don’t want their personal

Technology is in everything we do from using our home refrigerator, washer, cell phone, car, and computers. When using certain devices you could potentially pass information out to others pertaining to your personal private information. This information could be bank account and credit card numbers, pins, and or passwords. We unconsciously don’t even realize that we could be sharing this information. We give out information that is randomly requested when we walk into a dentist office or doctor’s office, the local liquor store, or when we are using social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Google. This is all collected, stored, and tracked by the NSA, and what is our government is doing with it is unknown. In today’s world NSA

the cameras that are used today are used to monitor people in a way of protection. For

People’s phones are being monitored by the government. Privacy and unmonitored spaces are not existent in today's world. One good example in today's world is the “Hello Barbie” by Mattel. This “smart toy” retails at 75 dollars and has features such as microphone to listen into little children's lives. The sound bites of the child are sent back to Mattel's headquarters to bexamined so the Barbie can give appropriate responses. Mattel could use this feature for advertisement. They could relentlessly pressure the children to ask their parents for the newest Barbie toy. One hacker named “Matt Jakubowski was able to get into the toy’s system to access users’ system information, Wi-Fi network names, internal MAC addresses, account IDs and MP3 files, he told NBC Chicago. He added that he would be able to use this data to find someone’s house and personal information, and could access their home network and listen to everything Barbie records” (***). This is a serious invasion of privacy and he was only able to do this with his laptop. Anyone can hack into a “Hello Barbie” and find out somebody's personal information. One other example in today's world is the NSA monitoring people. Edward Snowden was a NSA agent who exposed what the government was doing. This can be related to an section of the book Fahrenheit 451 when Montag realizes the hound is tracking him, “Outside the door, in the rain, a

In “Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things”, John W. Whitehead talks about how Americans are so caught up with the idea of the internet making our lives easier that no one thinks about what the government could be doing with all the information that technology is allowing them to acquire. Whitehead talks about how dangerous this could be and how the government could have total control over our lives. He explains technologies built for houses that can perform tasks such as detecting when you enter and exit your house, your sleep habits, can set the temperature on the thermostat based on who is there and what temperature they’re comfortable in, and an alert system that could tell you if your children don’t

Government surveillance in the past was not a big threat due to the limitations on technology; however, in the current day, it has become an immense power for the government. Taylor, author of a book on Electronic Surveillance supports, "A generation ago, when records were tucked away on paper in manila folders, there was some assurance that such information wouldn 't be spread everywhere. Now, however, our life stories are available at the push of a button" (Taylor 111). With more and more Americans logging into social media cites and using text-messaging devices, the more providers of metadata the government has. In her journal “The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit”, Anita L. Allen, an expert on privacy law, writes, “Contemporary technologies of data collection make secret, privacy invading surveillance easy and nearly irresistible. For every technology of confidential personal communication…there are one or more counter-technologies of eavesdropping” (Allen 1). Being in the middle of the Digital Age, we have to be much more careful of the kinds of information we put in our digital devices.

Ever since day one, people have been developing and creating all sorts of new methods and machines to help better everyday life in one way or another. Who can forget the invention of the ever-wondrous telephone? And we can’t forget how innovative and life-changing computers have been. However, while all machines have their positive uses, there can also be many negatives depending on how one uses said machines, wiretapping in on phone conversations, using spyware to quietly survey every keystroke and click one makes, and many other methods of unwanted snooping have arisen. As a result, laws have been made to make sure these negative uses are not taken advantage of by anyone. But because of how often technology changes, how can it be

In the article “That’s No My Phone. That’s My Tracker”, Peter Maass, suggest in a seemingly, unbiased fashion, that unconsciously we are letting ourselves be tracked and investigated by simply using our cell phones, “Every year, private companies spend millions of dollars developing new services that track, store and share the words, movements and even the thoughts of their

First of all, “as of right now, technology is the only significant barrier” protecting you from “Big Brother” (Source E). Source E was published in 2012 and since then, technology is getting better and better. Currently, new iPhone applications can “snap a photo of a person and within seconds display their name date of birth and social security number" (Source E). These applications create harmful intrusions of our identity that can lead to identity theft. Big-name retailers like Wal-Mart and Target utilize technology that can track their customers, according to buisnessinvestor.com. Even though these systems are used for benign purposes they can also be used harmfully. A typical hacker could gain easy access to millions of customers’ credit cards. We have predicted that this inquisitive technology would come later in the future but it is already out.

The unknown author(s) of the article “Your Browser Is Selling You Out,” states how website advertisements, computer programs, and websites in general are collecting and storing private information. Andrea Rock, the author of “How Private Is Your Private Life?,” shows how her doing everyday activities puts her privacy at risk. Also both articles explain what cookies are and how they are used for ad networks such as DoubleClick. Andrea Rock’s article is put in sequence format to show what she does during the day that puts her privacy at risk, such as using a supermarket discount card, registering a car, or using an E-ZPass (Rock 683-685). In contrast, the article “Your Browser Is Selling You Out” goes through three different ways in depth on how privacy is being collected and

People in the world enjoys their privacy but company’s like Apple and others tries to invade the people’s privacy and have tracked consumers. Another issue Apple was

Technology-related industries are creating products that are more innovative, easy to use and attractive to facilitate the preservation of personal moments. A new model, a new philosophy and a new approach; GoPro extends their current portfolio to five models as part of the attempt to dominate the market of cameras.