It's almost completely gone now. If you're carrying a smartphone, you're being tracked. Every time you search or post or visit a website, Google and Facebook log it. It's already happened a few times to people that they've been denied jobs because of something on their social media. With even more perfect knowledge of who you are and who you hang out with, this is going to be a huge part of your future. You have to curate these things, not be friends with the wrong sort of people, not look at or visit the wrong websites.
I think it's sad, because we've essentially created a totalitarian society without the government.
Privacy.
It's almost completely gone now. If you're carrying a smartphone, you're being tracked. Every time you search or post or visit a website, Google and Facebook log it. It's already happened a few times to people that they've been denied jobs because of something on their social media. With even more perfect knowledge of who you are and who you hang out with, this is going to be a huge part of your future. You have to curate these things, not be friends with the wrong sort of people, not look at or visit the wrong websites.
I think it's sad, because we've essentially created a totalitarian society without the government.