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The Signal chat app is the flavour of the day, particularly after tech wiz Elon Musk’s endorsement of it
While I have consciously stayed away converting all of us into ‘products’ to be
from television and OTTs by and large, I consumed by ‘brands’ and not the other
chanced upon a well-known serial called way round. Let us introspect on that – we
Blacklist on Netflix – an engrossing have allowed our data to be invaded by the
serial based on an interplay between an Facebooks, Amazons, Netflix and Googles
international criminal and the FBI and how of the world. FANGs will be out for money’s
they work together to put down criminals sake, but it is for us to de‘FANG’ them from
and threats to people. An interesting aspect our data. We have to opaque the glass wall
is that every single bit of information or of privacy.
movement or activity or location of any
criminal is traced out on the net and from
digital data banks. A bit surreal, but it is
very close to the reality of easy access to
data. Get the drift – no information of yours
is confidential or safe. Quite literally, users
beware!
So, it is best to be circumspect and
selective in our use the digital platforms, in
our own interest.
On a related note, I cannot help observing We need to realise that no information of ours is fully
the all-pervasive digital behaviour confidential – so users must beware

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