By Genesis Reynoso
While we think we have privacy, we are wrong. While we think that sharing harmless family pictures on facebook, or letting people know where we are eating fr dinner that week is harmless, it isn’t.
We live in a world were everyone can access technology. It can only take a few seconds to create any social media account—free of cost.
This day in age, technology is advancing, and while we are thinking it’s for the better, do we really know what’s happening behind closed doors?
Discovering that technology is being used against you is terrifying and even uncomfortable.
The government is in more control than we think. My boyfriend has an Alexa, and every time I come over, I make sure to unplug it, and hid it somewhere. While Alexa’s can be useful for checking the weather, and giving you information with little to no effort, it is always listening.
That’s what it was created for. Yet people still buy these, not thinking about the consequences.
The same can be said for cellphones. We care theme around, not knowing what’s really going on without phones. Our telephones and networks that carry our calls, are wired for surveillance first, meaning someone could be listening.
But who?
It could be the government, another government, a hacker, or anyone who wants to break into surveillance.
Government officials are angry that encryptions are in tact. They want to be able to get into our phones, and know what’s going on. While it is a dangerous time that we live in, should we still be able to get into ANYONES phone wherever we want?
When a back door is built in technology, no one knows who’s going to go though it, leaving a huge risk for ANYONE to get easy access to someone’s privacy.
Why encryptions do make it harder for the police to catch criminals, and the government to find out information, at least we have our privacy.
We have to secure our calls, texts and phones.
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