The Hunt for Man: When Privacy Becomes a Mirage
The obsession with control has devoured the last shred of individual freedom. Today, no zone is safe from the technological panopticon: every breath, every click, every movement is cataloged, analyzed, monetized.
The average citizen has become a profile to be mapped, a set of data reducible to precise coordinates. Smartphones, social networks, credit cards, geolocation systems: every technological tool transforms into an invasive probe penetrating the most intimate layers of existence.
A few pretexts are enough - national security, crime fighting, administrative efficiency - to dismantle any bastion of personal privacy. An algorithm, a database, a camera are sufficient to strip a citizen of their deepest identity.
Big tech corporations have perfected a business model based on the systematic expropriation of personal data. Google, Facebook, Amazon no longer sell services, but detailed human profiles to the most diverse clients. Profiling has become the new form of colonization: no longer geographical territories, but behavioral maps.
Governments have quickly understood the effectiveness of this model. Mass surveillance systems, massive interceptions, preventive filing are now consolidated practices. The citizen is treated as a potential criminal, constantly under observation.
Anyone who still dares to defend private space is branded as suspicious, almost an enemy of the transparent society. The blackmail is always the same: surrender your privacy or be considered unreliable.
Modern technologies have erased the very concept of personal boundary. Every piece of data is extracted, processed, resold. Our private conversations, preferences, movements are commodities in a global market where the individual is reduced to merchandise.
The psychological consequences are devastating. The constant awareness of being watched modifies behaviors, generates a form of preventive self-censorship. We become actors of ourselves, aware that every gesture can be recorded, analyzed, judged.
Privacy invasion is no longer an exception, but the rule. A pervasive system that erases any distinction between public and private, between individual freedom and collective control.
The individual has become a mere object of surveillance, stripped even of the right to simply be themselves, free and unlabeled.
Freedom today is no longer a right, but an increasingly expensive, increasingly rare privilege.
🦅 Cheyenne Isa ₿ 🦅
