What are electronic tattoos? According to Juan Enriquez on TedTalk, Enriquez refers to “Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, cellphones, GPS, Foursquare, Yelp, Travel Advisory, EasyPass, security cameras, Wikipedia, credit scores, credit cards” as electronic tattoos.
Electronic Tattoos are devices or platforms that keep records of everything you do, post, buy, watch, etc. The reason this is such an issue is because of the invasion of privacy. The use of technology to spread private information is good when it is in control of the individual whose privacy it is. They have the right to share their privacy with whomever they please. But that does not mean the applications used to do so, are able to keep records of the privacy shared therefore invading the individual’s privacy.
The government should be stricter on companies about keeping records and information on people, invading their privacy. The thing is, is that the government does the same thing as the other companies and invades our privacy. The government keeps track of all our information through our technology. For example, simply having our phone near us and on invites the government to listen to what is going on around us and our conversations. This is a major invasion of our privacy, but the government feels it is necessary to have in the case of potentially using it against us in some way.
A way that we can avoid and protect ourselves from privacy invasion is being very aware of your surroundings and what you say. Every type of electronic that has the power to pick up sound, can be tapped into in order to retrieve whatever is being said around it. Powering off our electronic devices when we aren’t using them and being very aware of what we say and what we are around when saying it will help to protect us from privacy invasion.
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