- We live in a world of selfies, oneself promotion.

So for this week’s podcast

in englishtalk.com we’re talking about privacy and a right to do it.
- Yes? It’s ironic in some ways and it is a big discussion of the moment about
privacy and a government and organizations knowing of every move but
then you decide on the coin. People are putting up all this information on
Internet, on Facebook, on Instagram, all the time is well so…
- Yes, it’s interesting, because people seem to be obsessed with taking photos
of themselves. We mention the selfies and letting everyone know where they
are, what they’re doing and who they’re doing it with.
- But they don’t like the government to know too much about the activities
that do they.
- Yes, you’re right. Because, I mean it’s not public lives what being watched
and recorded wherever we go: in the supermarket? At the bus station,
walking down the road. There are so cool security cameras catching every
move.
- Yes, but even those people who are aware of privacy and have all the
privacy settings turned on in their social media, for instance. And that cause
… soon I turn the mobile phones on.
- OK, what do you mean by that?
- Well, the phone companies, for start, know exactly where you are and they
often give that information to government cooperation or whatever. You
cannot be truly private.
- So, assenity turning on your mobile phone, some cannot find where you are.
- Of course you have to connect by the mobile phone… and they know where
their places are, so it is very easy to find where people are/
- And do they know who you are talking to as well?
- Of course, they’ve got records from the numbers of the telephone numbers
you call. Not the content of the call, that’s not important, but who you
contact, so it’s very important.
- But it seems to me that actually people don’t care they put up so much
personal information about themselves on social media and seem to be
happy to publicize what they’re doing. I mean, maybe, it doesn’t matter but
there are security cameras everywhere as well. I mean, maybe, it would
seem hypocritical to complain about or worry about that kind of privacy
invasion if you yourself or being so public about private life.
- Well, it depends. On social media people choose what to put up on
Facebook or whatever. But they walk in the highstreet they’re being filmed.
They don’t know they’re being filmed, you don’t know you’re being
watched and you don’t know how that information is gonna be used.
- See, how to lose control then of your privacy.
- Exactly. For instance, it could be interesting for environment of course when
go to the rally and then perhaps the police are observing your photograph
could be taken, you could be compared to the police records. They might
think you all doing is following allowed people down the street.
- Because there are cases reached of the police using surveillance CCTV and
misidentifying people and cases.
- Yes, I remember, a few years ago Brazilian man was showed by the police
in London and it was totally innocent.
- Yes, misidentification using those cameras. So it’s going back then reaching
to what people put on Instagram or Facebook pages and the fact that they
advertise everything about their lives. Maybe, people should think twice
about that. Because you don’t really know who is looking at the sights, who
is recording it and to what else they use that information.