We are Digital Slaves

We are all Digital slaves. You. Me. Your Parents. Children if you have them.

Privacy is the biggest challenge we face today, and even more so in the future. It’s so difficult because the problem is not physically apparent. How can something be true that we don’t feel or see, nor does it require us to expend any effort or energy?

Other people or corporations owning any part of our digital identity leads to exploitation of our privacy and attention. We don’t own our virtual identities, other things or people do. We don’t profit from our personal data, privacy or attention, other things or people do. We are subjugated, exploited and put to work by Multi-Billion dollar enterprises who profit from our participation.

Attention economy conglomerates leverage this to enrich themselves while exploiting us. But we don’t feel it. It’s something we are intrinsically aware of, and increasingly so, but for convenience we agree to free products and services in return for being taken advantage of. We can’t see the value or tangibility of our participation so its value to us is impossible to judge.

Until we recognize the problem we can’t even begin to start changing it.

It should be considered a form of servitude, where our attention, data, and privacy is exploited to enrich others. We are indentured to these services…