After having read the article "Snooping Bosses" my initial feeling was that we're moving into, if we aren't already there, a Big Brother society. Although the article gave me an impression of "focus your attention to this slowly growing issue" they also refrain from distinctly taking sides.
Personally, I feel that this issue is a never-ending loop. Individuals who side with it being the proper way to go about life, that is to end the existence of privacy, claim that if you have nothing to hide you should not have anything against being monitored. Individuals who side with this being a creation of Orwell's 1984, claim that even though one has nothing to hide, the power of monitoring others will be abused since there is nobody watching "Big Brother".
Technology is a wonderful creation and anyone who disagrees, dare I say, doesn't have their head screwed on right. But as long as there are humans involved there will always be mistakes and there were always be abuse and situations taken advantage of. Therefore it is my opinion that privacy is a must and should be a right given to every human being.
It was a well put together blog assignment. I liked the view of that there is human who is watching these”big brother information” and that we never can ignore the factors as the “human failure” or that all humans are individuals and some may handle the “big brother information” correct but there will also be humans who can use the information for much more private and straight up wrong purposes.
SvaraRaderaI don’t know if it´s my lack of English knowledge, but I find some part of the text like
“Individuals who side with it being the proper way to go about life, that is to end the existence of privacy, claim that if you have nothing to hide you should not have anything against being monitored.”
quite tricky too really understand, maybe there is a “direct translation” from another language that doesn’t really fit with the English, or maybe it´s just hard to explain what you mean and find the right terms or as I said, it´s my lack of English that causes this confusion.
Thanks
Viktor.J
I agree with you. Privacy is a human right that must be respected.
SvaraRadera/Stina
I feel the same way as you describe here, that we are going in to a Big brother society, where big brother is watching anyone and anywhere when he wants to i no one gets to know about it. And yes privacy is a human right and no one should be able to take that away from you. And you don't necessarily have something to hide beacuse you fight for your right to privacy.
SvaraRadera/ Johanna