Because smart devices seek to dominate all aspects of our lives, there are minute details that make us pause to realize the gravity of the technology in our hands. When starting a new device, the first mandatory step is to provide an email address to identify you as a person, and you have already given your name, determined your geographical location, phone number, and date of birth. This implicit identification breach opens the door wide to obtaining more information about you through photos, files, and messages. Thus, the journey begins with uploading the contact list to determine your direct and indirect relationships, leading this step to tightening control through social media applications. While everyone thinks that protection measures are defined by fingerprint, thumbprint, or facial recognition, they are unaware that this is the most accurate recognition of your biometric identity. With the camera and microphone storing your visual and vocal signatures, we find ourselves moving within operating systems that do not protect privacy as much as they trade it by granting absolute permissions, consciously or unconsciously.
This tracking is no longer exclusive to state corridors but extends to the information struggle documented by the series (Spycraft) on the (Netflix) platform, which reviewed the evolution of eavesdropping up to advanced hacking software like (NSO Group) through its famous program (Pegasus), which represents the pinnacle of digital espionage by hacking phones without user interaction, confirming that espionage has shifted from security goals to a massive commercial industry that merges surveillance with the commercial exploitation of our data and privacy. Here, the most important question arises: who is the real beneficiary of this flowing influx? The answer goes beyond major tech companies to include networks of targeted advertising algorithms and data brokerage companies seeking to build a digital twin that predicts user desires and decisions. In my opinion, in the absence of legislative incapacity and the delay of laws in keeping up with this rapid evolution to protect data, the necessity of adopting a cautious digital behavior emerges, balancing the benefits of technology and restricting tracking permissions, because if the law does not protect fools, technology does not spare users.