Lab+5

What are your views/concerns about the future of privacy? (Don't talk generally, have a specific focus and argument)

In the digital age, issues of privacy are withheld on a daily basis. Our digital environment is forcing us to become more and more transparent and “non-private”. Technologies have changed our outlook on what is to be confidential these days and what is to be displayed in public. Major example of this are the social networking sites that basically encourage their users to be more publicly involved and less anti-social, which makes users to give up their personal privacy in order to be part of a collective agreement.

In the age of capitalism the big corporations are using this grasp of public privacy in order to gain competitive advantages over their competitors. They use manipulative tools to get behind what is truly the need of the mass audience, as an example the owner of face book publicly claims that they use user’s information to gain perspective on current trends and outlooks. As they are a strong powerhouse of the public’s private information they can get pretty good information on the way the majority of individuals live their lives. Therefore what is to be private and what is to be made public is in the hands of the users of these digital tools, the concern is that big private corporations can seem quite dubious in the use of our information.