In today’s society, data is all over the place from online searches to talking on the phone to your friends about the newest product. While data can be useful and make life easier for short-term success, in the long-run data is can be very harmful and invasive. For example, when online shopping vendors use credit card information and personal addresses they store that information into user settings to save for a later date. While this information makes life easier for the next time you purchase an item, a hacker can easily steal this information. Not only do online vendors save personal information, but they also use cookies to create an algorithm personal to you in order to get the consumer to buy more items. While in both of these instances, the user is voluntarily giving information it still is hazardous to give your personal details and data to companies because of hackers who can easily take personal information for their own use.
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Your point makes me think significantly about why we create the types of dystopia movies we do. For some reason, our society for the last century or so has been obsessed with the dystopia genre and the possible outcomes of society. It seems that our dystopian societies come in two forms: those with technology and those without. The ones based on extremes of taking data and using it to make life easier as you suggest are a manifestation or continuation of our current society and reliance on technology. The ones without, however, demonstrate the chaos that would be caused without the use of data tracking and convenience. As much as we recognize how bad data tracking is for us, we feel that without it we would have anarchy.