https://medium.com/@catelawrence/why-privacy-is-the-biggest-tech-issue-of-2019-b3fdb2550fdd

Cate LawrenceBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJan 14If there’s one issue that has preoccupied law-makers, politicians, consumers, researchers, and consumer rights bodies in 2018, it is privacy. In dictionary terms, privacy means “the quality or state of being apart from company or observation.” 2018 has bought privacy to the forefront in regard to data sharing, location intelligence, and facial recognition technology. While our minds have reeled at the advancements of technology and what they might mean our lives in futures years, they’ve also lurched at the realization that privacy in most instances is nothing but a dream and that a user you are the product, not the customer.

The stark reality is that most social media users do a pretty good job at depleting their own privacy without any efforts of nefarious forces behind the scenes: they tag places they regularly visit, take pictures of their children in school uniforms and share their sleep and running schedules. They make political statements online and indicate attendance at political events. People even mark when they are on holidays (and their homes are presumably vacant) and take photographs of boarding passes prior to boarding planes.