#interatct19

This week I watched (and interacted) with a 7-part documentary about privacy and the web called Do Not Track. I think the whole series struck a nice balance between interactive (mostly giving information about myself) and video to illustrate how the web tracks your movement, how your digital footprint is used to gather data on you and predict things about you from that. Probably a lot of people would find it concerning how much they could tell about you, but it was relatively inaccurate for me - maybe partly due to my answers, but also I don’t engage too heavily with social media. Thus, Illuminus, which uses your Facebook profile was unable to analyse mine due to lack of sufficient data. Is that slightly reassuring? Maybe. I would say I am relatively non-fussed about the extensive data gathering that goes on, but that’s probably because I consider it necessary - it’s not like I could give up having access to Google, it’s simply to useful. One of the stories about a woman who went out of her way to not reveal her pregnancy online, ended up getting marked as a potential criminal, which was really interesting. It is weird if you don’t use the internet... Ultimately, I don’t think I’m likely to change my habits based on watching Do Not Track, but it is good that there is information out there for people, who are potentially unaware - especially if this information is conveyed in a digestible and engaging manner!