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| Their winning documentary is titled, Who's Watching Me? | ||
| Threats to our data privacy. | ||
| Every company has realized that the collection of data is one of the most important things that their company could be engaged in. | ||
| Data is the bedrock of most tech companies' revenue streams. | ||
| So whoever has the most data is going to win. | ||
| Data. | ||
| Privacy. | ||
| Privacy. | ||
| Recent years have seen a surge in hacker activity. | ||
| In 2023, 1 million people's identities were stolen, and 353 million people were affected by data breaches. | ||
| Thousands of companies have been impacted by these data leaks. | ||
| In 2014, 50 million Facebook accounts were breached, leading to 1 million users deleting the app, accounting for $6 billion of its revenue. | ||
| There's no doubt data privacy is important to keeping Americans safe. | ||
| But these days, the lack of it is becoming a big problem. | ||
| Apps collect data on consumers through what information they share with them. | ||
| When you sign up for an account on a social media app, you'll agree to share specific information about yourself, which you can find in a privacy policy. | ||
| However, a survey done in 2019 by the Pew Research Center showed that only 22% of adults in the U.S. regularly read privacy policies, and only 13% read them thoroughly before agreeing to share their information. | ||
| The biggest problem for data security is user education, so people don't understand how to keep themselves safe. | ||
| There's not really much of a concerted effort in the United States to educate people and make them smarter about these issues. | ||
| Yet the main concern among U.S. citizens is that companies are collecting data and are handling it in suspicious ways. | ||
| Every website indirectly is exposing you to hundreds and hundreds of different people who can track you. | ||
| Data is the most important thing that we have today. | ||
| The moment we access anything, we're putting that data out there in the public. | ||
| And organizations have that data and utilize that data for their own purposes. | ||
| Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Google. | ||
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All of these apps are taking your information, they mine your information, and it gets sold. | |
| That sort of data where you're calling somebody or texting somebody, you're giving up information of your location to a company that collects that information. | ||
| So if you're in New York City, it could show you, hey, there are restaurants nearby. | ||
| They can sell that information to other companies that want to deliver advertising to you. | ||
| That's really what their privacy policies are constantly saying. | ||
| They're constantly saying, your data is totally private, but we're going to share it with anybody we want to in order to make sure we can monetize that data. | ||
| In fact, the data trade is one of the primary ways social media apps make money. | ||
| And a lot of companies, if everybody opted out of providing their data, they wouldn't want to be in business with you. | ||
| It'd be more worth it to shut down. | ||
| If we create an economy where you can become the world's most valuable company just by tracking people enough, that sort of means, you know, their incentives are for us to hand over everything about our identities for commercialization and to spend as many hours a day looking at their properties as possible. | ||
| That's how you end up with things like infamous growth. | ||
| Companies also sell their data to data brokers who are often poorly regulated in how they use it. | ||
| Data brokers are incredibly worrisome and they're pretty much unregulated in the United States. | ||
| The data brokers can sell incredibly personal information and that's incredibly invasive. | ||
| We need a strong federal law that regulates data brokers and limits them because right now we have state laws that are really complicated and not terribly effective. | ||
| In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement must obtain a search warrant before asking companies for information to help them solve a case or prevent a terrorist attack, for example. | ||
| However, we already know that companies will sell data to anyone that will pay them for it, including law enforcement. | ||
| Law enforcement agencies like the ICE and FBI have purchased data from data brokers and companies in the past. | ||
| It's concerning because, right, like let's just say you're an innocent person who happened to be in the neighborhood. | ||
| You don't want to suddenly have cops knocking on your door arresting you because your phone pinged off a cell tower that happened to be near a murder that happened. | ||
| That's not right. | ||
| So then they can mass collect data on you just by buying trillions of lines of data. | ||
| Currently, there is no strong federal law that regulates the collection and distribution of personal information. | ||
| So California and about 20 other states have passed privacy laws, but they only apply to the residents of those states and they're not terribly effective. | ||
| Ultimately, we need a federal law. | ||
| One of the major ways to create control of data is legislatively. | ||
| When governments start to control data and limit the power of companies to share or do things with that data, then you get some version of data privacy. | ||
| Every American deserves to know that their personal information is safe and under their control, and it's up to the government to allow them to do that. | ||
| It's time to take action by implementing stronger federal laws regulating data collection and handling. | ||
| It's time we take data privacy seriously for a safer and more secure future. | ||
| Be sure to watch all of the winning entries on our website at studentcam.org. | ||
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