I did my best to track my digital footprint, but I’m sure this list only encompasses a fraction of my contributions to big data. I didn’t even mention any of the interaction I had with websites. For example, vox.com surely keeps track of which news articles are read. Regardless, it’s official, I’m burned. That intelligence job is gone.<\/p>\n
Having done this activity, I can see that organizations are definitely able to piece together my identity. Can they get my whole identity?!? No, of course not, but they do know a lot about me. Pretty quickly, most of these organizations can tell that I’m a university student that lives in Raleigh NC. They probably know the majority of my shopping habits. They know places I have lived in the past. Since they know this about me and almost everyone around me, they can infer even much more useful data, such as the people with whom I associate.<\/p>\n
Who knows this information? Likely the NSA and many companies. My guess is that the NSA and large companies know nearly 100% of my digital footprint and that smaller companies know part of my digital footprint through a small device, a website, or through acquiring data from one of the large companies.<\/p>\n
Does this bother me? Well, my instinct is to disapprove of some entity tracking my life without me knowing about it, but\u00a0I think it’s a consequence of the world we live in today. I’m over it. Track me all you want. I hope, and genuinely do believe, that big data will positively affect my life much more than it will negatively affect my life. With that thought, I wonder when it will positively save time and money in the medical field. My ‘Tomorrow Question’ is when will doctors never need to ask, “Have you been exercising lately?” or “Have you been keeping an eye on your sugar intake?” I don’t think we’re too far away from these routine questions being eliminated completely by\u00a0self monitoring devices.<\/p>\n
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