The internet and its hidden cyberthreats for teenagers

• Autores: Guillermo Arce Ballesteros
• Localización: Cybersecurity and Legal-Regulatory Aspects / Gabi Siboni (ed. lit.), Limor Ezioni (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 978-981-12-1915-3, págs. 245-278
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Understanding the new environment of cyberspace and how social networks are influencing the future of humankind is critical not only for teenagers but also for their relatives and the society as a whole. This chapter focuses on identifying the explicit, implicit, and more importantly, the hidden threats faced by the present-day society and understanding how these risks can affect our teenagers, who will become the future leaders of governments, companies, and institutions in just a couple of decades from now. Are they aware that everything they are doing now is being been saved permanently and could resurface any time in the future? Privacy is now becoming san utopian concept; we are already living in George Orwell’s world and the scary part is that there is not only just one Big Brother watching us, there are many: governments, cyber intelligence agencies, security institutions, and especially mega Cyber International Corporations (CICs), such as Cambridge Analytics, that are controlling and ruling our cyber lives. The terrifying thing is that we, the people and the society, are passively accepting this as part of our daily routine because somehow this hyper–cyber-linked world is satisfying what marketing professionals refer to as a “basic human need”: communication, which forms the keystone of our society and human development. At the same time, we are publicly revealing our most hidden needs and our deepest private thoughts (some marketers refer to these as “personal wants”) to people and companies that are ruling our cyber lives.