Topic: Made to measure: Should we even share more information?
Dear all,
we all leave data within the global network, when we search or generic navigate through the global network and its amount of different services. Should we bother with the data left behing? We should for sure bother and think about that. Because the reasoning is easy: When is the point reached where all this data can be used against us?
The first and direct question: Do we really need more complex web-browsers?
The personal answer for me would be a direct NO. The world-wide web is just one of so many more services for sure. But we leave there the big amount of data. The more kind of convinience is implemented into the web-browsers the more kind of security-vectors are to see. The simple reasoning: More complex web-browsers need more dependencies with more structures and even more possible security-holes. How many libraries, how many frameworks, how many programming-languages in general until the point is reached for a breach? You can mulitply all of that for sure and the web-standards are so complicated until even now, that it is more and more getting impossible to implement another "complete" engine for accessing the world-wide web. Modern websites are defined with so much bloat these days while their elementary content is nevertheless just "text". But therefore: Animations, more not-optimized graphics, more video-input and with all of that also more dynmics in the background. The load of inbound javascript is so much beyond anything and make those websites horrific in the view of privacy and security. Why even bother to have web-browsers following this kind of way down? The answer is just the convinience of users.
Yes, breach of privacy and data is not seen direct, is not recognized direct. And nevertheless everyone will be not amused when personal data can be used against the own self. Just an easy but known concept: You share everything from your daily life, from your daily insights throughout services. And when somebody is following you throughout those websites and reconstruct a profile about you, your hobbies, your problems, your preferred way to do many other things? Too many ignore that nevertheless and the dangers coming: What about companies? Have you thought what companies can do with all the data? You don't think Meta and many others just archive all they can get, for "later".
This brings us to the next dimension: The right of being a "Ghost", is it needed?
First things first, to make clear: To name somebody direct as "Ghost" is not friendly and even though it is for me speaking a direct insult. In the concept of the global network and all those services included I think it is absolute correct that everyone has the right to be some kind of "Ghost". Not to be found. You have the right to choose what kind of information can be found or even if any kind of information should be found. But we should also immediately stop with thinking the other way around: Just because any kind of individual person is not found it does not mean the person has no history or has not done anything. That's the major point: We have reached the the point where we even measure personally. When a person is found with profiles on whatever kind of services it seems the person has done "things", engaged within "things". Can I review that? Can anyone approve that? Not possible. But nevertheless the impression is all that counts and so to name others "Ghost" is unfriendly as they prefer not to share more insights. We cannot and should never enforce that as we help to breach elementary points of respect. I'm not befriended with the whole world of humans and I don't want that, not just because there are enough groups and individuals out there willing to do harm to me. It is just stress and we forget about the worth of information, the complexity of it, the ways to help, the ways to even use language and words, their beauty and our possibility of expression for emotions and thoughts. Do we really think all can be shortened around in some nonsense meme-imagery and round about 280 signs? We try to simplify, but complex information is not possible to be simplified. So I say: Yes, everyone has the right to be invisible. Be careful what you share, what kind of sites you are using and what kind of services you trust.
Do yourself and everyone else a favor and do the best possible: Yes, kind of activism is needed for many things. But don't you think it is better to do instead of speaking about it? Where is the need to make images and summarize even every single aspect of your personal life? You breach not only your own privacy in the end, you breach it also for everyone else. You don't think so? Well, we can speak again when there is a need to have accounts at services like Facebook for example, or any other kind of platform comparable to share "insights".
The answer for question within th title from myself is therefore: No, we should not even share more information. We need to stop that.
Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices: For a life of every being full with peace and kindness, including diversity and freedom. Capitalism is destroying our minds, the planet itself and the universe in the end!