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Recently, there was an article titled “The new electronic police state” that spoke about a person’s encounter with the customs and border patrol agent. He was asked for the passcode to his phone and within minutes, it was scanned for “deraogatory” information. This is related to the section of our reading in which the study explains how users defined ownership of a file. When I thought of “owning” a file, I thought privacy. The “files” on my phone should stay private as they are my thoughts, ideas, and words that I do not feel the need to share. Just like our own subconscious thoughts, they should not be subject to searches at the airport.
As the article states, current policies allow travelers to be “coerced into allowing access to their private information without any suspicion of violating any immigration laws.” If our phones are easy targets for searches and information to our private life, then soon, when technology allows, our brains will become public information. When the time comes that our subconscious and conscious thoughts are interpreted in to “files” and data — a literal perspective seen in this picture of Spongebob
— then who is to stop them from doing these immoral searches. If our conscious, written thoughts are allowed to be accessed, will we come to a point where we ask: Do we even own our “subconscious” files?
Posted from Digital 101 by Christy