subject: Today's Interesting Technology For Tracking Individuals [print this page] This is a pretty exciting ageThis is a pretty exciting age. There are a number of reasons for that. The population's perceptions have shifted.What were once considered unacceptable practices and behaviours have suddenly become the norm.We see a lot of different examples of that. And Most of the example are good.The racial equality is now higher than ever , and the same applies to women in work places.
The IT sector had a major influence on many of these cultural shifts.Electronic storage and data extraction from huge depositories of information facilitated many tedious tasks.I can't imagine how hard it must have been in the past to find the right document in those paper mountains. Imagine using a ladder to get to the right shelf?.Now the desired information is two clicks away(sometimes even less). It is also more secure in a physical sense. A natural disaster no longer threatens the integrity of the documents. Files are backed up on servers which are located in different places.
Unfortunately there is another side to this coin.These depositories of information might be hacked from distance.It makes our personal information vulnerable to rogue attacks.No matter how secure the system is there will always be a smart hacker.It's scary, but it doesn't mean we should revert back to stone age. There are many examples of how technology can help regular people access large databases. Let's take quick-ip-lookup.info/18/index.py as an example.
It allows a person to run a simple reverse telephone number lookup and find out who the owner of a telephone number is.Potential benefits of this service are amazing.For example 800 reverse phone lookup services allow a person to find out the name of the organization that was calling him.Or a person can run a reverse cell phone lookup to find out who is harassing him over the phone.
But even this seemingly innocent tool is a potential weapon.A sexual predator also knows how to use reverse lookups. A careless person might give out his or her phone number in the club and become a victim.This might force us to sacrifice our conveniences for the sake of safety. We have to remain vigilant at all times, when it comes to disclosing our personal information to strangers.
I think that every person should have a say in this matter.If we don't have our say, our privacy might be taken away bit by bit. Imagine waking up one day to a world where privacy is a secondary notion. And when that stage is reached , it's often a done deal which is hard to reverse.Even the smallest representatives (on the municipal level) should be listened to at the highest of levels in order to prevent this from happening. Privacy matters.
