"Inside The Dark Web" was by far the most interesting and worrisome documentary I have ever watched. Sure, I don't watch a lot of documentaries, but still! This was honestly a bit nerve racking. The documentary talked a lot about how we are all constantly on 24-hour surveillance, and the invention of Tor, which is a browser that can let anonymous users stay anonymous.
As long as your phone is on and connected to wifi, you are being watched. This has been seized by government as part of their surveillance and is also very popular with technology companies. We are being monitored in ways that was never before possible and we are voluntarily logging on to it. Everything you do can and will be sold to the highest bidder, and when this happens, you will immediately be bombarded with advertisements and sales that correspond with your interests. You think that when you are shopping online, you are buying a product? Wrong. You are the product. You become the exact thing that people are wanting to trade and sell, and the market is huge for this stuff, for information. Knowledge is power, and we are so willing to give that all away.
Tor helps to stop the madness though. The invention of this browser has made it possible for anonymous users to remain anonymous. I mentioned in a previous post about Do Not Tracking software and this is kind of like that, except instead of a software that you can download on to your computer, this is a an engine like Chrome or Internet Explorer. You can be anywhere online, and Tor just mixes your data with one of those from another anonymous user and spews it all out at once. That way, computers and analysers can't find out what information came from where. This is the only way Tor can work. You need many users in order to be untraceable. I know it doesn't sound like it should make sense, but it does. You can't be anonymous alone.
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