<center><h3>In this series I will be sharing a number of innovative ways in which blockchain technology could potentially be implemented into society.</h3></center>
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<center><h2># 2 : Data collection on Steroids</h2></center>
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As things stand, there is already an exerted effort to accumulate as much data as possible on each person who makes use of the internet. The reason for this concerted push by many apps and sites to gain your personal information, is reportedly to do with advertising. I'm not too convinced on that, however.

At the moment, there are steps that one can take to seemingly remove all the data that has been collected on them, but what happens when the internet is on a blockchain and nothing can be deleted? Your emails, your somewhat inappropriate snaps, your shopping habits and that anonymous self-help chatroom conversation will all be out there for good.

I have heard the argument made before that if you don't have anything to hide, then it shouldn't be a problem(often from politicians), but I consider this to be either a malicious lie or an extremely short-sighted opinion.

One does not need to have committed a crime online in order to draw security from privacy. The needn't even have done something embarrassing online that they regret. If in the future, a citizen spawns an idea that could benefit the people, at a cost to the state, then that state could make use of that person's data in order to find a pressure point that will make them decide against pursuing that idea they had envisioned.

Even if that person had the most reputable internet history and was a beacon of respectability, a thorough examination of their internet history would reveal their passions, hobbies, beliefs, as well as that of their closest friends and family that would also be uncovered during the examination. Then this respectable citizen could potentially be coerced into abandoning their plans, or even altering them to ones that benefit the government, by simply applying pressure to those beliefs and passions, or to their friends and family who perhaps have done something embarrassing or "illegal" on the internet, and are now under threat of having that exposed or prosecuted. 

If one had an absolute guarantee that their government would never take such steps to retain or expand their power, then I am sure the privacy issue would be a lot less significant. But anyone who has been awake the last decade or more, should be aware that governments are in no rush to resign power over to the masses, or to anyone else. Personally, I wonder if this was not the entire purpose of the internet. It is named the "net" and "web" after all, two words that allude to a sense of capturing information, when they could have chose a number of synonyms such as matrix or grid, that would not have this hint at a sinister agenda.

Perhaps my last comment was a little crazy, and maybe I am wrong about what the purpose of the internet was and is. However, the problem still remains that an oppressive government could utilise the captured data of the people in order to quell dissent, or any attempts at revolt or even protest.

If you are drawing some comfort from the belief that this is simply not possible, and that there is no way to store so much information indefinitely, then I invite you to look into the apparent heart attack of one Jann Sloot, as well as the technology he claimed to have developed just before his coincidental death. Also, consider the fact that this incident was about two decades ago, so if Sloot did possess a technology that could shrink massive files into tiny ones, and if he was murdered and that technology stolen, then it would likely have been improved upon by this point, and someone out there may very well have the technology to compress terabytes into bytes by now. That would make it possible to capture ALL information from the internet, globally, and indefinitely.

When the blockchain merges with the internet, all your data, and all the data of everyone you know, will be collected, will be permanent, and will be used against you if you have the power to make a difference that counts.

#### This is the second reason why the progression of blockchain technology needs to be watched closely, the third will be posted soon.


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