What do your meaning of privacy look like?
According to “US politicians quiz Google on Glass privacy”, eight congressmen signed on the questions letter which was send to Google boss Larry Page to ask for reassurance about their privacy policies in the high-tech gadget named Google Glass. The congressmen concerned about user and non- user privacy data on which might be recorded on the glasses and they want to ensure the same incident that Google snapped unprotected Wi-Fi networks during they gather information for its Street View service will not be happened again.
My meaning of privacy is something that you do not want others know about you even though it is a truth about you such as your pants’ size, your age. It can be anything or any incident which it is about you.
In this case, I think people should worry about their privacy because this spectacle can record anything as same as its users see and it can easily share on many social media websites.
Some people might think privacy is stupid which they do not interest in it. So, they share everything such as their address and their cell phone number on their Facebook which they never set privacy rules to secure their information and allow anyone to see it even though Facebook’s website reminds them to concern about their privacy every time they use Facebook. Moreover, they always check in the place they are and share their location on their post to let their friends or anyone comment on it.
I am not one of them because I worry about my safety and my information which I never know who my enemies are and what they can do. So, I use fake name on my social websites and turn on privacy rules to secure my information from anyone who are not on my allowed list.
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Reference
US politicians quiz Google on Glass privacy. (2013, May 17) BBC Technology Retrieved May 20, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22567061
I like that opening question: What is privacy?
ReplyDeleteMy immediate thought was that it might be easier to define the adjective private. It's usually easier to do nouns or verbs, but in this case, I thought the adjective was easier to work with.
And as Bas suggest, the more interesting question, once we have sorted out the definitions, is whether Google Glass poses a threat to privacy. And if it does, is that something we should worry about?
Bas's comments about Facebook, of which I'm a user, although very infrequently under my "real" name, reminded me of my silliest niece.
ReplyDeleteWhen she was using it around age 15 - 17, she would post everything - that she was going to the local shop, and so on. All public and all very convenient for any thieves who were doing a cost-benefit analysis to decide which house to break into.
One of my young nephews at least had decency to be quite embarrassed when I hinted that his girl friend's posts on his timeline that he was "the bees knees" and that she "loved him forever" and so on, for quite a repetitive bit, was also all in the public domain for anyone, any where in the world to read.
But I do rather like the idea of Google Glass - at least until I can get a retinal implant or a direct connection to the brain.
ReplyDeleteI used to be one of people who lack of using privacy setting on facebook
ReplyDeletebut one day some of my friend share something from mine
and then it made lot of people across the country angry at me. T^T
After that I never forget to set 'privacy' to every a single post I compose it
but I still put the true information on facebook ........and sure not 'all' information.