We’re all familiar with the idea that phones can be tapped. We’ve all heard stories that ‘Big Brother’ is listening.
As technology advances, it’s become even scarier to answer our phones. We’ve opened ourselves up to potential harm. Sites like www.mobile-spy.com provide spy software for any phone at a small fee to customers. Is it about people wanting privacy or people not being able to trust one another?
The FBI can also tap our phones at any time too, using a device called a ‘roving bug,’ which can install software to any handset, record all calls (even when the phone is off) without an owner’s knowledge.
Not only that, but you can tell where someone is via their cell phones these days, too. With some companies, it’s optional with their service, but your whereabouts can be traced through your cell phone regardless.
And look at Facebook, Twitter, Myspace-all of these places provide people with too much information about you. Others who are mutual friends can view one conversation you had with someone via their wall. Do we ever take that into account?
Isn’t it creepy that you can post your address and class schedule on there, anyway? Aren’t we just doing this to ourselves, providing too many people with too much information?
If we aren’t worried about our phones being tapped into, or someone stalking us via Facebook, are we worried about someone tracking us down via our GPS or OnStar in our cars?
The OnStar Interface Module in a car can record if a driver is wearing a seatbelt and how fast they may have been going if there’s an accident and an airbag employs. While this could be a positive thing, it also clears auto manufacturers of wrongdoing, denies warranty repairs, can increase your car insurance and find you at fault in that accident.
The GPS systems built into cars have similarities to the OnStar service. It makes a car beam their location for 24 hours a day, and when it’s built in your car, there isn’t an option to turn it off-a chip will always be in your car.
Is it that we don’t value our privacy anymore, or that we don’t think about it much? All of these mediums we may use daily can end up coming to hurt us in the end.
That job at the end of your college graduation is waiting for you, but not if they find out too much about you.