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Society and data
We live in a new era, a era which the most important thing we individually own his what our preferences are. We all like different things, and, nowadays, we see new companies which their main product is to play with our data. They earn millions and millions playing with our data, we simply search for something and the next second, we see ads, ads and more ads.
But, more interesting, this kind of companies are growing and evolving, we can see this while we are talking with somebody and have our smartphones inside the table (a behavior someone thought it was important, but we only put inside the table the things we are proud of), but go on, we are talking about something and when we came home and turn on our computer, the first thing we saw is ads about the topics we was talking later.
I don’t know about you, but this is scary as f*ck…
And this take us to new world, where some people realize how important our data is and create new mechanisms for fight the ads about our searching, but, the companies find out about this mechanisms and change their code, and we go to the beginning…
How we win this battle?
It’s simple, we have to schedule our time, we have to leave our smartphone away when we are with friends and family, we have to stop following what these companies say, we don’t need a smartphone 24/7.
We have to choose carefully which websites we go, avoiding the ones who have the word “free”.