Chapter 5: Information Privacy
Although the episode does not specifically touch upon information privacy, it heavily implies that data is vital to today's society. Without without taking proper steps to protect your information the blackmail and other events can happen to you. The episode showcases the worst case scenario of how the leaking of your personal information can (and will) destroy your life. We are able to see how multiple people within the episode's life are ruined:
Kenny - kills another man and is arrested for what we can assume murder and child pornography
Hector - loses custody of his child
Un-named pedophile - killed by Kenny
Data is everything in today's society, with many companies' business models being based upon data collection. Currently, the industry stands at a 138.9 billion dollar industry and "it is projected to reach 229.4 billion by 2025" [1]. With constant collection of our everyday internet usage, it is very easy for us to lose track of what we have browsed over the period of a very short time. With the average usage of data per person being 1.7 megabytes/second [2], the amount of data that is reported by your device is extraordinary. By taking a look at the website "https://webkay.robinlinus.com/", you're able to see "What every Browser knows about you" [3]. You're able to see that you are able to view your hardware, software, social media, location, etc. This is a scary amount of data. Linking it back to the episode, we're able to deduce that the hacker was able to know all of this information in advance, even worryingly enough, Kenny's location. By extension, anyone who has the skills necessary is able to view your location from a remote location. With this in mind, we must take proper precaution to protect ourselves on the internet, to reduce the risk that our data is leaked by a source that is outside of our jurisdiction.
[1] Top industries and companies selling your personal data. Top Industries and Companies Selling Your Personal Data. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2022, from https://www.invisibly.com/learn-blog/companies-selling-your-personal-data
[2] Shah, K. (2020, September 17). How much data is created every day in 2020? LinkedIn. Retrieved April 25, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-data-created-every-day-2020-kesha-shah
[3] Here's all the data collected from you as you browse the web. Gizmodo. (2017, December 6). Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://gizmodo.com/heres-all-the-data-collected-from-you-as-you-browse-the-1820779304