Digital survival
We live in a time where at every step someone is collecting information about us. Breaking out of this matrix in many cases is practically impossible.
Have you ever wondered how much information we leave about ourselves at each stage of our daily activities? Working at a computer, watching TV, talking on the phone, driving, shopping, withdrawing money from an ATM or buying a ticket to the cinema… Even a simple walk around town can provide a lot of information about our preferences and habits. All this data is stored on a huge number of servers and is just waiting for someone to access it. This is not a conspiracy theory, but the reality we have been living in for many years now. If we suddenly decided to disappear from the digital world, it would turn out that it is not that easy and in many cases even impossible.
The consumer for the taking
Never in the history of mankind has a government had such powerful means of overseeing its citizens as the modern era. Today’s governments, calling themselves democratic, use incomparably more intrusive methods of surveillance than the most criminal regimes in history. If we look at the problem from a distance, it’s hard not to admit he’s right.
Let’s start with the Internet, or rather the computer or laptop we use every day. In most cases we use Google to surf the web and the…
