Ted Talks Videos
Introduction
Tracking the tracker is a talk by Gary Kovacs that expresses his worries about constant tracking whenever he or anybody else starts using the internet. Reality hits him the moment he develops software that displays the random links. The links keep track of people’s whereabouts while using the internet. Through the websites visited, the trackers have the ability to come up with a profile that suits a target. An illustration of how the monitoring takes place has a brief demonstration. Kovacs further informs his audience that the more times people spends surfing the internet, the more he or she has links collecting information about them and making them insecure. Whenever using the internet, people require maximum guarantee regarding their safety from trackers.
Tracking the Tracker
Gary Kovacs pin points an argument by emphasizing that web tracking is not precisely evil. All internet users have the responsibility of knowing whether the provided information requires storage or not in their systems. The number of websites that track someone’s internet usage increases depending on the various web pages visited by an individual. People sign up to various social web sites giving vital information linking them to their whereabouts. This poses as a threat to someone since people have no idea on who is tracking their every move. These social websites demand information about people’s private life, for this reason people update information about their status.
Gary criticizes the internet for opening a door to the world, which, alternatively, is in use as an open way for man to the world. This suggests that the more people use the internet the more they submit their personal information to the world. Privileges presented by the internet blindfold human kind such that the sense of disclosing personal details gets lost. Gary Kovacs worry is that even young kids at a tender age of eight do not stand a chance from these trackers. He further gives an example of his own daughter whom he personally monitored the rate at which her internet usage was under tracking.
As a parent, he has all rights to feel the insecurity of his own child. Given that Kovacs has no clue on who is keeping track of his daughter’s every move, there is no doubt that he has to be worried. From the context, a collision concurs the moment Kovacs says that the internet acts as an open door to the world and alternatively it opens the door that exposes man to the world. The collision turns out as a benefit to man and a danger in terms of exposing personal information about someone to trackers and hackers.
Conclusion
The tracking systems put people at risk if others have the upper hand to monitor the activities of individual’s browsers. It is safe if superior organizations linked to the nation state security are keeping an eye on citizens through the internet, but they should at least guarantee the internet users that their details are safe, similar to what banks and other financial organizations are currently performing. The Mozilla add on tool helps, people monitor the number of trackers tracking them, and if there is to be one national tracker known by all citizens then it is easier to notice if an unrecognized party is keeping track of an individual’s path. Security happens to be the most significant key aspect in internet usage and people’s daily endeavors.
