Do you remember George Orwell's novel “1984” and its prediction of the all-powerful, all-knowing Big Brother who knew everything you did and thought? Well, 1984 came and went and, for the most part, we all laughed it off as silly paranoia.
Today, the secret is out. You don't need the power of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather information—all you need is an Internet connection. The advent of social media and its apps has not only made information gathering easier, but the amount of information to gather exponentially greater.
Gathering and analyzing information is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because of the richness of knowledge and data such a network represents; a curse, because in the wrong hands, such knowledge could lead to unjust decisions.
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