Ted Talks about collusion

TED

         This video showed that a number of sites are tracking you on the web without any permission. Thankfully, a site called collusion has been created to keep track of which sites are tracking you without permission. Having someone track your digital life was concerning for the speaker, because they did it without his consent, and it is concerning to him that some person is following his 9 year old daughters every move (on the internet).With the information trackers (stalkers) get from you, they can relatively do whatever they want with it. They could use the information against you, but the possibilities are endless on where all your digital information is going.I would say, the only way tracking could be used for good, is when there is a program that will track what you have done throughout the day, showing what websites you have been to and how long you have been on them. It would be a time management website, where people could see how much time they have spent on the internet, and so they can set goals, to stay on let’s say Twitter for only a half hour a day- then the program will only allow you to do it for an hour before locking you out of it for the rest of the day. You could also use it to block kids from certain sites and track where they have been throughout the day. Then there is the bad side, which is what TED talked about in the video and that’s people (without your permission) following you, and tracking your whereabouts on the internet, doing God knows what with your information.I thought there were an abnormal amount of dots appearing on the screen, especially considering that none of the sites had the speakers permission to track him. It was obviously alarming to him, as I imagine everyone who has collusion.I honestly don’t think my collusion would show really anything, because I only use the internet for academic purposes, Pandora, and rarely maybe help with something else, or a game.