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Technology and Us

Today all of us have a smartphone in all our hands. It does all the work we need to do every day. Yes, it helps us in many ways yet how safe is this technology? Where does all the data and information go to with the phone you have in your hands today.

                                  

Our smartphones contain various applications and one of them is a search region that has all the information we are looking for. For example, Google search and Siri. They just do not come with the search region but they also come with google maps, health applications,photos, music, video, and cloud back up. This software and applications help us in many ways and we at least use each application 5 times a day. But how accurate or correct are the information is? Those days, news in the newspaper is written by publications but today almost anyone of us has the ability to write anything for the world to read. It can truth or fake but people are always there to believe it.

Besides that, your maps know better where you are, your house and your working place is located compared to people out there and of course your family members. Don’t you think someone is watching you all the time? We do capture pictures and we store personal information on our phone but where does all this information store? Does this information go to the developer? Today, we all do use cloud storage to make sure all our personal files are saved. But this information is also used to find an individual’s interest. Perhaps that is the reason why we are getting advertisements or suggestions and moreover when we use our smartphones. For example, you wanted to shop something online either you buy it or not you keep getting more suggestions on the items you looked for.


 Moving on, technology leads to job insecurity. Robots and machines are created to work as a human being today. This is because a company might want to cut costs or save a lot by doing this but do you realize that quite a lot of people out there are losing their job. For example, one of my friends is working in a call center where the company is moving forward digitalize where customers will communicate with computers which are customized to talk like a human being. Even McDonald’s are taking orders through online instead of speaking to the worker. This has already taken up all the work that human beings do and leads them to lose jobs.

Next, we have also come up with a technology which is known as AI(Artificial Intelligence). Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. We all name the device on our hand as a smartphone, yes and that is because handphones are being smarter than us these days.AI has the ability to detect whether its an animal, plants, human being, or text. Lately, I saw software that is able to detect individuals and categorize them in a folder. For example, my google photos. This is just on our phone but what about each and everyone in the world who owns a smartphone? Are we safe now? Moving on, day by day we are providing information to companies we do not know for an example every time when we download applications there is a notification that requires us to allow or block to access the images, contacts, microphones, and location.


In conclusion, now technology is a part of our life. There are pros and cons but technology can be used in many ways. I strongly suggest that we should not reveal any personal information on the internet. From my point of view, there is a limit on what we share on the internet especially when it comes to personal information. Technology is a good platform but it depends on how we use it. The more we reveal the more we are in danger.

By,
Kousalya Selvam

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