Assessment 5- Persausive Post
Although not everyone will agree, I want to present the idea of “Unethical human activity is primarily responsible for a lack of privacy and safety on the internet”. This is not true. It is the social media and internet programs that lack the privacy and safety. Each program has their own set up for their privacy policies, some may not be as private as you think unless you read all of it even the fine print. How they have tracking programs, you do not know how safe they are even if the government says to get it. The fact that human activity cannot control that several companies are sharing between each other, peoples information.
I have several reasons for thinking this, my first being the fact of talking about something then you get ads later about it. For instance, when you and your family or friends could be searching things on google or even talking about them, such as booking a hotel for your holiday or things to buy for your house or friends, then you go on social media just like Facebook and all the adds through your news feed is of that exact thing you were looking at 10 minutes ago. This shows that several companies are linked with each other and once you look up something on one program, all the ads that appear on the others will be of that exact thing. This is not caused by human activity; this is the social media and internet programs that are responsible for these actions. Human activity is not responsible for this situation of having lack of privacy and safety.
In addition, the lack of safety and privacy is due to the government having programs for tracking individuals, whether it is just for a sickness spreading or to maintain people are obeying by the rules. There is a mobile phone industry that has explored to create a global data sharing- system that can track individuals around the world. There is at least one company that is capable of tracking individuals through their mobile devices. Governments are making a sharing-system, so they can track people with their mobile phone location to help stop the spread of Covid-19 virus. They want to use this app program to track individuals to maintain the spread of the disease but also be able to see where it came from and who had been involved with the contagious person. But how do you know that is all they are using it for, they could be using it to track individuals if they are in trouble by the police or anything. The app my not even be locked probably by the government, for privacy that only they can see it, it could be where individuals could download it and then could hack it to be able to start stalking people. For example their could be paedophiles out their that know how to hack things and if the government doesn’t have their programs such as an app from the Appstore , like this one is, locked for the privacy levels then those people could then start getting stalked and hurt, not because of human activity but because the government brought some tracking location app out and didn’t have it locked so others don’t get in.
To further support my point, that companies sharing peoples private information like Mark Zuckerberg shared private user data with Facebook friends. Mark gave access of users data to dozens of app developer friends. Mark supposedly used the data as a reward to third party companies and developers who spent reasonable amount on ads. Facebook exposed 87 million users to Cambridge Analytica. None of this can be the human activities fault for lack of privacy and safety, when they are not the ones, sharing peoples data around to several people that are in big companies to look at. This is all on the people who run these companies, the internet programs and social medias, fault for the lack of these privacy and safety restrictions.
As I stated in my introduction, is “Unethical human activity primarily responsible for the lack of privacy and safety on the internet”. From using my three points, which were, different programs syncing with each other so once you search something you get ads for it, to governments making tracking apps not knowing exactly how it will get used. To lastly companies sharing individuals information with each other. I think I have shown you proof that this cannot be the human activities responsibility for lack of privacy and safety, as this is all the companies who run the internet programs, social media and governments who decide to make these tracking apps. They are the ones in fault for these responsibilities, as no dishonest human activity can do these things.
