"Modern times are now less about the dehumanisation within the industrial machine...and more about the digitally rendered person enmeshed in a fabric and veil of data and code" Kingsley Dennis explains (Dennis 347). In today's day and age, the internet has created a new digital era. "Near-constant surveillance of the person, both in public life and in private affairs has blurred boundaries between what is external and what is internal, between outer and inner freedom" (Dennis 347). The "fear of freedom" that has been noted in our society in the past is expanding into a "fear of security" (Dennis 347) due to this new digital era. People have more access to other peoples' information and it is harder to block people from certain content. Take Facebook for example. There are various privacy settings for Facebook, but you have to go search them. When you create your account for the first time, you are not asked what you want your privacy settings to be. Your profile is automatically open for all other Facebook users to see. You have to go in yourself and set your privacy settings how you want. This new internet phenomenon is making it harder to have a true sense of security.
With the creation of the new digital technology, the Internet has become a major part of our everyday lives: "This upcoming trend can be expressed as a need to record, store, and analyse one's social participation and mobility for security of self. It acts as both security and an alibi towards future dataveillance intrusions" (Dennis 348). As of 2011, Facebook has more than 500 million active users (Facebook). That's a large number of people connected to a website. Yet, somehow, when you go to your homepage, more often than not, the "friends suggestions" are people you actually know. Our personal information is floating around in the World Wide Web for millions of people to see, which is a very concerning concept.
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