Complacency has lead us to live in glass houses. I, for one, never question that every action I take on the web amounts to Free Labour. The information I search, the infomation I provide, the questions I ask are all monitored. Big Brother may not necessarily be monitoring me on CCTV 300 times a day, but I self-survey possibly that many times a day without realising.
Sleepwalking through my daily life, I give details of my location as I Tweet and status updates on my activities via Social Networking.
I provide databases with all the details through my indelible datatrail.
Looking at where this may take us, I happened upon the website foursquare.com. This new site allows you to apparently connect with people in your location. Through this, we provide specific details of our activities, targetted advertising and our daily movements. Are we now allowing ourselves to be stalked by Big Brother?
The web may have provided us with immortality, but is this really what we want? A drunken night you may choose to forget may permanently follow you for the next 30 years.
Perhaps freedom's veil is now so transparent, that we have nowhere to hide.
Who has the power?
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