Media project reflection

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The web, a facility we all enjoy to use. Watching series, following news, chatting or contacting each other, looking for information…etc. However, we never though abut the consequences about that use. What are we paying as a price? Nothing is free, it’s a give and get world. But we never realize that. Taking it as given, thinking it’s free, we enjoy ourselves without knowing that we are sacrificing something much more important. Is our identity known as users when we seek a certain information or Is it public?

Inside the dark web documentary spots the light about our personal security and surveillance. Where does our privacy start and where does it end? Watching the documentary all I could think about is I am being watched. Fear dominated my feelings. The idea of people out there watching every movement I make inside the web. While watching the documentary or even right now someone out there knows about the texts I am getting and what I am watching. Another idea crossed my mind, what if I wasn’t just watched but actually controlled? What if I am being pushed to read what I am reading and watch what I am watching? How come ads I see are somewhat related to me or to what I was looking for? If I think about it thoroughly I am not really free and there is no such thing as privacy once you start browsing the web. I understand that this surveillance is needed for national security. However, there has to be a way to other that watch all of us and know our movements. In fact, national security is just an excuse to sell people information to companies that need advertising. It’s all for business purposes. We’re exposed to adds almost for 24/7. If you look about certain information or look as the pregnant women ‘s example. Your browsing information is sold to related companies and you find yourself bombarded with adds of things related to your interest but that you don’t necessarily need. So if I have to answer the question of when does your privacy start, I’ll have to say it actually doesn’t, and it only will if we isolate ourselves from technology and wireless signals. Otherwise we’re always watched, even if we’re not browsing the internet, the wireless signals give our locations. Those people know where you are and where you are going.

Although a browser was created for anonymous use, they still know your doing just don’t know who you are. It isn’t a solution for gaining our freedom back. However, whishing for privacy is like looking for water in a desert. If we can’t give up internet we can’t have privacy and can’t stop surveillance. In other words, privacy never start to stop. There is no limit to the information they can have on us. Some may argue that internet give us freedom of expression and allow small groups and small communities to make their voices heard. Even if I seem pessimistic, I don’t think that we need that freedom if we were going to be watched while enjoying it and even punished in some cases. It isn’t the real freedom we need and deserve.

Source:

Under the light of the documentary Inside the Dark Web (https://vimeo.com/105452148).