These issues affect me and my friends because they allow us to be constantly surveilled and sometimes unjustly rejected by potential jobs because of the way we conduct ourselves in a personal setting. I've seen many instances of people who get turned down from jobs because they posted some pictures of them just at a party cutting loose. (Despite this issue being illegal) It can cause issues for my family because we have an Alexa and I had no idea that it simply strips us of our privacy and allows us to become products for advertising companies. Its the sneaky practices that make using any new technology difficult.
The government should be catering less to companies and more to protecting its citizens. it needs to force the companies to make the lack of privacy more blatant and obvious. It should honestly be illegal to spy on people within their homes, but in this day and age there is no possibility that this will happen.
We can reduce the amount of time we spend on screens, we can use VPNs to encrypt browsing and focus on utilizing peer to peer encryption for messaging. Reducing the amount of posting and browsing on social media sites also helps, and consistently cleaning out cookies that are accepted from websites. (A list of the top VPNs of 2024 can be found here.)
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