Transparency. Today's new religion.
Everybody knows the novel 1984, a story about a dictatorial world where everyone is constantly watched by the entity "Big brother". However, strangely enough, it seems that nobody realizes that today's world and the nightmare described by George Orwell a few decades ago, looks more and more alike!
Public cameras now seem to be everywhere. In the streets, in the subway, even in public restrooms! Anyone can learn about someone else's life with a few clicks on Google. And the scariest thing is that, at the moment, there is no valid law that prevents those kinds of privacy invasions.
If a majority of people still approve most of the measures that improve transparency in general, more and more citizens are concerned about their privacy.
In my opinion, transparency has many advantages but can lead to dangerous situations. Anyone can find a lot of informations about anyone and can use these informations against them. There is almost no way to take back the informations we did not want to spread online. Today, new companies are being created precisely to keep track of their client's reputation. They are called "reputation cleansers", their activity consists in erasing their clients' informations online.
I'm thinking these companies will make a lot of money in the next few years!
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