We generate enormous amounts of personal data and give it away without caring
about our privacy.
Before the wake-up alarm rings on our smartphone, our heartbeats and sleeping
patterns were being recorded through the night on the embedded app on our wrist
watch. We turn on our customized morning playlist on Spotify, read the headlines tailored
for our interests on Apple or Google news, retweet on Twitter, upvote on Quora,
register likes on WhatsApp, post a snapshot of the snow outside our window, and look
up on what our friends are up to on Facebook. We then check the weather forecast
and ask Alexa to order cereal from Amazon. We are ready to go to work.
Unimaginable convenience for us commoners without a royal butler feels
splendid. The invisible cost is that we are under constant surveillance whenever
we use these services. All our choices, actions, and activities are being recorded
and stored by the seemingly free technology-driven conveniences.