Have you ever lost a cell phone?
I take the train to Union Station, Downtown Los Angeles, two
days a month because I volunteer time as a docent, giving tours of the
Cathedral of Our Lady and I also man the Plaza Information Booth.
Reaching inside my pocket for my cell phone to take a
picture, I realized that my phone was not there. I was
panic stricken! Hundreds of contacts, over three thousand pictures, social
media accounts, and banking information, ect… lost in seconds! My life’s
profile was in the hands of a stranger!
The cost of the phone was the least of my concerns; however,
it did cross my mind. It felt like I had been violated, exposed and naked
before the world.
Why is privacy so sacred?
Could it be that privacy affords me the opportunity to
become who I want to be? To lie to people who don’t know me? To exaggerate or demean the facts about
myself? Go places I have never been? How
much am I really worth? Privacy becomes
a welcome mystery to reality.
Is the fear of exposure real? In my opinion yes, because there is no hiding
the fat, scares, or anything else when you stand naked before someone.
The loss of my phone enlightened me to the dependence and
reliance on what I have allowed myself to become accustomed to through
technology.
However, above that I was able to consider the reality of
privacy, and the hidden transparency of what privacy affords me to become.
The danger is that no privacy may bring a world of
transparency that Artificial intelligence (AI) can easily and rationally
control through logic, devoid of emotion and our innate ability to communicate
through emotion.
Something to consider is that belief systems and faith may be
a thing of the past without privacy because nothing can be hidden.
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