As technology becomes more advanced, I believe it has become much easier for the government to stalk us. In China, the government is establishing surveillance of facial recognition, fingerprints, etc. to scrutinize billions of citizens. Obama and Trump insisted Apple create a way in which they could see everyone’s data on encrypted iPhones. Facebook even had an unsecured cloud server leak user’s phone numbers and their name to the world. This exposed data put these users at risk of scam phone calls and attempts of identity fraud.
We are ignorant to what information gets leaked to the government; however, most people are so obsessed with technology that they don’t care. Apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube could save your picture in a database for when cops need to identify you. All cops have to do is take a photo and it will be matched to a photo found on your social media page.
Social media has a pivotal role in the increase of stalking, and the scarier thing is that we don’t know when we are being stalked. Anything you put out on social media is with you forever. Even though it may disappear, as in Snapchat or an Instagram story, these postings will virtually remain in the social media stratosphere.
In California, police arrested a man for breaking into a 13-year-old girl’s house, whose address he found by observing her posts on social media. We don’t stop to think about someone stalking our social media to track us down because people live busy lives; however, as seen in the show You, some people make it their profession to stalk.
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