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DonnaZamirSecondEssay 4 - 09 Dec 2019 - Main.DonnaZamir
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Psychological Aspects of Allowing our Cybersurveillance and Data-Collection | | | Throughout the course, it was suggested that some psychological aspects underly this "cybersurveillance cognitive dissonance", such as the need to reduce anxiety; FOMO; repression and denial of the ramifications of our data-surveillance; and difficulty to delay gratifications.
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< | Drawing on these discussions, other psychological aspects will be offered to further elucidate this cognitive dissonance, and explain the reasons for this "irrational" behavior. | >
> | Drawing on these discussions, other psychological aspects will be offered to further elucidate this cognitive dissonance, and to try to explain the reasons for this "irrational" behavior. | | | Optimism Bias | | | There is no doubt that the above-described psychological biases can be quite useful for our everyday lives – because, what could be better and more convenient than ignoring the numerous threats of the world; satisfying our current momentary desires; and conforming with the conduct of everyone around us? However, we all would agree that ignoring existing risks and potentially adverse future results of our behavior, can only last so long. | |
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< | Thus, studies have offered several ways for reducing the above-described biases. These mainly focus on raising awareness to, and emphasizing, the underlying risks and adverse outcomes of these biases; for instance, by providing people information about these risks in a salient manner; highlighting the frequency and seriousness of these risks; and emphasizing that these risks are not confined to a specific group of individuals, but rather apply to everyone. | >
> | Thus, studies have offered several ways for reducing these biases. These mainly focus on raising awareness to, and emphasizing, the underlying risks and adverse outcomes of these biases; for instance, by providing people information about these risks in a salient and clear manner; highlighting the frequency and seriousness of these risks; and emphasizing that these risks are not confined to a specific group of individuals, but rather apply to everyone. | | | | |
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< | However, due to the fact that our formal education, as well as the majority of information we consume, are mostly produced and controlled by the exact same entities which cyber-surveil us and collect our data (both governmental and commercial entities) – it is much harder to raise awareness of these problems, and accordingly, to reduce our biases. | >
> | However, due to the fact that our formal education, as well as the majority of information we consume, are mostly produced and controlled by the exact same entities which cyber-surveil us and collect our data (both governmental and commercial entities) – it seems much harder to raise awareness of these problems, and accordingly, to reduce our biases. | | | Yet, we can still hope that awareness regarding the hazards of cybersurveillance will be raised through other communication channels, such as off-stream and interest-free media bodies, before it will be too late to do something about it (although, this aspiration might be optimistically biased).
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