We live among people who are on the rush to do something significant in this present digital world. Everything is becoming either automated or virtual. People want everything in a minute or two. Some of us would have certainly taken a minute for granted but in that minute have we ever wondered what goes around us?
In a minute – 1 Million Facebook log-ins are made, 4.5 million YouTube videos are watched, 3.8 Million Google searches are made, $9,96,956 are spent online, 41.6 million messages are sent on Whatsapp and FB Messenger, 188 million emails are sent, 3,90,030 mobile applications are downloaded via Google Play and Apple Store, a total of 6,94,444 hours’ worth of content are watched and much more. All this happens in a minute.
So approximately in a day, more than 500 million tweets are sent, 294 billion emails are 4 Petabytes of data are created on Facebook, 65 Billion Whatsapp texts are sent and much more.
Apart from watching the already existing contents, we are generating more data in a day than it was possible in the previous year. The Internet space is growing fast and there seems to be no stopping it at the moment but what happens to all the data that we have ever given about ourselves to myriad people in the world?
Our individual behavior could be analyzed by the companies whose products we use. Take Google or example. Google Search, YouTube, Google Maps , Google Drive GMail etc all are all used by billions of people world-wide. In fact, Android smartphones are a product of Google.
“We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users” says Google in its privacy policy.
Since the terms and conditions mention them in a ‘Great Wall of China’ long volume, we fail to read it and turn blind voluntarily.
The more you generate data in a specific platform, the more they get to know about you. Facebook owns Whatsapp and Instagram and the data people give through it is huge every day. No matter which company, the data you give is saved. The lesser data you give, the richer your privacy remains. The more you give, the richer conglomerates get. Who is the loser, here? You decide.