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Commentary On The Documentary 'Do Not Track'

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The documentary “Do Not Track” was new and interactive for me to learn about the facts, and issues of digital privacies. I figured out the minor thing that there was an irony, the documentary aware about privacy and data tracking, but they use our data to create research data of their questionnaires responses, people`s behaviour and After watching 7 episodes from “Do Not Track” documentary, I recognized that due to the appearance of the digital revolution and social media, the production of data increased rapidly among the people. Since the usage of the computation and mobile devices became familiarization for them, the number of leaving their data footprints has been increasing drastically. Nowadays, we have billions of information and knowledge …show more content…

Lastly, I learned one of my current interests, big data became the source of well for the information and technological corporations to generate profit. According to IBM, big data can perform the collecting volume of mass data with high velocity, sorting the variety of formality, and identifying the value of information and knowledge (IBM, n.d). The definition of this terminology ‘big data’ yet not concrete, and diversely constructed by many scholars, and researchers; however, Fredriksson defines big data that it is the digital information from a variety of sources’ (Fredriksson, 2015). Mostly, big data created by the digital environment such as social media, web pages, online shopping, and geographic locations. In this case, digital privacy issues occur that the government and private sectors can access our information and knowledge like photo, emails, text messages, and phone call logs, and may threaten their people or users like what happened during the Kiev's EuroMaidan protest in Ukraine and Snowden`s revelation of NSA`s global threats to gain what they want. Moreover, as stated from Lyon, he pointed out that while using big data influences individuals with three things: gap between data and them, tilted toward surveillance for future social profiling, and lastly, it is dominant by corporations and the government (Lyon,

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