No privacy... No surprise... Just keep it protected.

Well, after reading Allen D. Kanner’s “The Piracy of Privacy: Why Marketers Bare Our Souls,” I now know that I have no privacy what so ever. The expansion of technology has become so sophisticated that just by registering my email, Facebook, and other favorite apps onto my cell phone, marketing and cell phone companies have configured a scheme to create a G.P.S system to persuade me into buying their products. Crazy Right? Just to make a profit, these marketing companies invade my privacy by getting personal information from me such as: “gender, age, race, travel patterns, interests, purchasing history, etc., to customize their commercial ads so that they can try to persuade me into buying their merchandise.”

Personally I do not believe that what the marketing companies are doing is all that bad, since they are only using this G.P.S system to persuade me into buying a product that I might be interested in purchasing. I mean that’s not causing me any harm… Now if I were a shopaholic, then I would be in trouble, but luckily I’m not. The only thing that concerns me with the whole collecting personal information rant is, what else are these marketers doing with my personal information, after they have used it to better their company’s well being? What other type of personal information of mine do these companies have? I hope the information the companies are collecting is NOT an easy gateway for a hacker to steal my hard earned money, or worse, my identity.

Being a college student I know for a fact that some of my personal information has already been seen by a certain number of people, and that my private information is not all that private any more. The only difference from marketing companies having access to my personal information compared to a university is I willingly gave that information to the university, which means I was giving my information with full conscious and full consent. I have not given any marketing or phone company consent or approval of using my personal information so that they may enhance their profits.

All I have to say about this new G.P.S. system is keep a good security on it, because if these systems are hacked, there is going to be a lot of law suits and a lot of chaos.