Take My Privacy Please Analysis

Ted Koppel an anchor and managing editor of the ABC News (1980-2005) wrote an article called Take My Privacy, Please! This article is about the many services that people sign up for that appear to make their lives easier, save them money, or ensure their safety, but may collect varies data on their habits and lives. The main goal of this article is to inform people of the many services we sign up for without knowing or understanding the full capacity of their service (Koppel, 2012). One example the author writes about is OnStar. The facts are that OnStar knows the whereabouts and the driving tendencies at any given point of an OnStar-equipped vehicle. What if that information was stolen or given to a third party. Another example is TiVo, where they
Particularly the data that could be collected and possibly be shared with third parties. Ted Koppel gives some examples of what different services can do; tracking the location of people or cars. And the habits people make like the products we buy. I think this article is good and makes strong validations toward people’s privacy.
The first example of a service people might have is OnStar. OnStar is a wireless service that’s intended to keep the “safety, security, and peace of mind for drivers and passengers” (Koppel, 2012, p.790). While doing so, it tracks the location of any OnStar-equipped vehicle. People should realize the risks of having OnStar before signing up.
VeriChip is a device that is implanted into animals and has ownership information on them so if some one’s pet gets found an animal shelter can scan the chip and find the owner. Is it too far to say that these chips could be implanted into, let’s say, a human? No, in fact, the spokesman for the VeriChip say’s there are an estimated 1,000 chips implanted into people. Now that’s scary to think