Technology has been good to me so far in life. In the movies we see the idea of "big brother" and government surveillance affecting the individual, but I suspect that if this trend of monitoring our web activity continues and becomes accepted by the public then it is the public that will suffer. The government won't use this technology exclusively to track down 'bad guys', but it will be one big marketing ploy, they want to know what interests us, what motivates us, how they can get our laborers to spend their money. The only good part I read was the idea of using this tracking technology to track the spread of disease, Dr. Pentland recalls that if the technology was around a few years ago it could have nipped SARS in the bud "If I could have looked at the cellphone records, it could have been stopped that morning rather than a couple of weeks later,” he said. “I’m sorry, that trumps minute concerns about privacy”. Those freshman at MIT who let researchers see their every web move are sell outs who are willing to give up their privacy to be in the good graces of the esteemed researchers at MIT, and if someone wanted to do research that reflects that movements of the average American, then why in the world would you use 100 freshman at MIT as the sample group, it is not random at all, and the people at MIT are very different than the average American.
Here is a video clip about how the FBI can listen in on your conversations even when your phone is off. click here
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