8-Day Blog Post: Cycle 6 Shopping Technology

Recently on CNN, I watched a video detailing consumerism in malls today. Retailers are starting to track what you look at, what you touch and try on, and classify what kind of shopper you are. They evaluate you before you even walk into their store with your likes or dislikes on profiles like Facebook or Amazon. Technology is starting to allow us to have less anonymity and become categorized as a society. Though some may see this as crossing new territory for commercialism and consumerism, others are arguing that it's a debate about privacy. The same software that retailers use to track what displays you are looking at with heat cameras, the government could use to track what locations you go to on a daily basis. The debate still continues whether this is moral or not and whether the government should put a stop to all of the patrolling on the internet and in stores in malls today.