The Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” was an eye opening watch. We see how all of our interactions in the real world are all recorded and sold to multi-trillionaire data companies and all this is happening without our approval. I think data works when we’re in the real world and we go around swiping credit cards, searching the web, sharing our location on social media, but all this information goes through different servers and gets recorded. However we believe that we are not exposing information but behind our backs it’s getting sold to companies for a profit. Also when we get these ads based on recent web searches its data that was given to other companies without our permission and its really creepy how quickly they pop up. This isn’t the only thing I noticed after watching the documentary, sometimes we receive calls from people we never gave our number to, that information was sold or shared to them and now they’re trying to persuade us into either buying something or giving us false information.

Something that had interested Professor David Carrol was the idea that all these huge corporations such as social media apps have the resources to record data from private users, then sharing that date with other major companies for a profit. Professor David Carrol wanted to do something about this so he chose to go after a company that goes by the name Cambridge Analytica. Apparently this company was associated with the 2016 presidential election where they stole information from millions of facebook users to help the Trump Campaign with advertising. Eventually all this information came to the public and helped inform the public of what happens with their information. Also if Trump did not have this advantage over Hillary Clinton there could have been a possibility that she might have won the presidential campaign. When people say what you put on the internet stays on the internet is a saying that many of us have to start listening too.

The “Death of the Private Self” and “The Great Hack” both talked about how our date is exposed to the whole world. “Death of the Private Self” talks about how our information is just wandering the internet and there’s no way we can stop that information from circulating. However “The Great Hack” talks about how this information is sold to major company’s for a profit and how our everyday actions lead to more private information getting exposed.