2nd October, 2017
How Much Does The Internet Know About Yourself?
Class today started off with a eye opening commercial, recored in Belgium (I will post the link at the bottom) about a man "reading" random peoples minds. At least thats what I thought it was at first. He started off grabbing random people off the street and telling them he was going to read their minds for a movie they're shooting. As the people agreed he brought them into a tent and was going to read their minds, in which they probably thought it would be a light notion of how they're feeling. But it got a lot more personal, which made the video way more interesting.
Here are some of the things that we was "reading" from people minds:
1. Boyfriends name (First, Middle, Last)
2. Best friends name (First, Middle, Last)
3. Where they live
4. Where they work
5. What school they attend
6. What vehicle they drive
Then he took it up a notch:
1. Bank Account number
2. Transactions
3. Bank Balances
4. Exactly how much someone spent last weekend
5. How much someone is selling their house for
6. Exactly every digit on someones credit card
As people were kind of freaked out by all of his mind reading, a drape falls beside him and on the other side of the drape were people dressed in all black, going on the internet and taking peoples identity from them. You could see everything about that specific person, and those people probably had no idea that people could do that.
The commercial ends with: "Your entire life is online, And it might be used against you"
This commercial was very interesting to me and knowing that people can know a lot about your life is a very scary thing. Always be aware of what you post on social media because your jobs, and your future could be ruined because of one post, 5 years ago.
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