Privacy Might Be Already Non-Existent

28 June 2021 (Wall Street International)* — Privacy has become a precious commodity. If you are rich enough, you can move to an off-grid island. If you are famous enough, you can get permission to build a higher wall around your property. The rest of us have to learn to live with an ever-decreasing level of privacy.

Some of us cope by sharing as much as possible about ourselves. That way, we can control the impression that others get of us online. Others try to be as hidden as possible. They refuse to use social media. They use a phone with an unlisted number.

There is some data that we cannot hide. Government agencies and corporations gather data about us in every interaction we have with them.

Despite their best efforts to protect the data with legislation, policies, and technical measures, even the best of them leak data. Your info will be sold without your consent and you do not even need to go into the darkest places of the DeepWeb to prove it.

In a time when a handful of companies control the majority of the data gathered across the world; tracing our every move, interactions, consumption, relationships, etc. and, it now seems too late as these companies have become too powerful. The necessary regulations to restore our privacy and distribute the power these few entities possess will be very difficult.