Privacy is dead, it’s official. Even when you delete all your data everywhere you know it’s being held, your data will be there until way after your death. It’s like plastic. Tiny little microscopic particles of your data will live on forever.
Well at least until we blow up the earth or it self-destructs into a fireball of internet mayhem.
After watching a 2013 documentary “Terms and Conditions May Apply” on Netflix, realising it was released 5 years ago and probably made a few years earlier then that, I now know without a shadow of doubt that my data, which I so willingly shared with so many websites and organisations, is being used and abused the world over.
The worst thing is I don’t even know how it’s being used and what profits are being made as a result.
I was the Social Media and Internet advocate, I was so excited and delighted when I first discovered it all, so happy that now we could talk to people all over the world and make relationships with strangers we’d never met previously at the drop of a hat. or maybe I should call it the ‘data hat’ or is it ‘data hack’?
Actually who cares, billions of people now adore the internet and in order to use it successfully, we have to give away every tiny bit of data about ourselves.
Happy surfing!