NOT AS PRIVATE AS YOU THINK By Emmanuel Koutsouras Say you are browsing the internet, maybe reading a movie review , looking through amazon to find a video game you want . Then you decide to go on Instagram sometime later and see an ad for something closely related to that movie review or video game. Social media is arguably the largest collective platform of information that the world has ever seen. There probably is not a single person who is completely off the grid. Social media brings people, ideas, thoughts, facts, and opinions together, in a way that nothing else can do. People put so much of their personal information on the various social media platforms, assuming safety as a given. As is the case with most things in life, nothing is a guarantee, though. The power of surveillance , which when you think about it is truly disturbing is “ that people whose personal data are collected or observed may not know when or if they are being watched” (Humphrey
