Goodbye Privacy

I just finished Who Owns the Future? and I was thinking about some of the interesting topics that Lanier brings up. One of these facts is that large technology companies such as Facebook and Google are enticing people to use their free services so that they can analyze their information. I also was surprised at the fact that sites such as Amazon or Orbitz charge different people different prices. I thought that everyone was charged the same, and the fact that they’re not shocked me. This method of experimentation with pricing displays yet another way that Siren Servers manipulate data to find out what people will pay for certain things. On some sites, the data is misused because it is sent to advertisers and third parties. This shows that consumer’s data isn’t confidential and is spread around the Internet. Because of this, I have become more careful with what information I provide on the Internet.  This also displays the decreasing amount of privacy that everyone now must deal with. The fact that almost every aspect of a person’s life is monitored is an extremely scary realization and shows the growing problems with our technology-centered society.