Scrypton

On yesterday’s paper there was quite a lot of debate about an update in the anti-terrorism law which allows employers to read employees email without prior consent. It has raised numerous concerns amongst the so-called ‘privacy activists’ as to whether these powers could be misused by the employers to retrieve more information about their employees’ working behaviour.

I start to wonder: do we even really need privacy?

In this day of modern age, almost everything is available online. Social networking and blogging sites nurture the idea that we, as social beings, are born to share our thoughts. So before we know it, our previously discreet thoughts which were kept in diary books (read: girls) are now available for everyone in the world to see. Even to people we don’t really know or would want to know, like, for example, aliens from outerspace.

Furthermore, our world has never been so persistent in knocking on our front door, relentlessly offering a trade-off between your ‘Vintage Privacy’ vacuum cleaner and the new ‘Super Turbo GT2000 Safety’ vacuum machine. It even comes with an in-built, always-on 360-degree camera and integrated microphone which will definitely be handy when (not if) you are being held captive in the basement — the place where you usually store your vacuum cleaner.

Sadly enough, many people in this world is dying for attention. Having not received enough from their increasingly busy family, friends and relatives (or even the person sitting next to them on the train or bus as they are listening on their podcast from some motivational speakers), they rest their case by sharing themselves to others over the internet technology, in the hopes that someone out there will actually care.

Hmm. I might be one of them. lol.

PS: On a lighter side of it, I cant help but asking myself whether my boss has read this blog of mine; and if he has, whether he would perceive me better or worse as an employee.