Name: 【TED】Gary Kovacs:追蹤追蹤者 (【TED】Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackers)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:48:29.000Z
Duration: 6 min 41 s

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

情態副詞

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think

that two and a half billion of us around the world

are connected to each other through the Internet

都有超過百分之三十的世界人口

more than 30 percent of the world's population

在網路上學習 創作或分享，我總覺得驚奇

can go online to learn, to create and to share.

而我們花在網路上做這些事的時間

And the amount of time each of us is spending doing all of this

每天就花了超過八小時在網路上

is spending over eight hours a day online.

但正如網路讓我們每一個人的世界更開闊

But just as the Internet has opened up the world for each and every one of us,

它也讓世界更容易找到我們每一個人

it has also opened up each and every one of us to the world.

And increasingly, the price we're being asked to pay

Today, what many of us would love to believe

網路是個私密的場所 事實並非如此

is that the Internet is a private place; it's not.

And with every click of the mouse and every touch of the screen,

我們就像童話〈糖果屋〉裡的漢森與葛萊特

leaving breadcrumbs of our personal information

everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

We are leaving our birthdays, our places of residence,

我們的財務狀況 許許多多的東西

our financial histories, and on and on it goes.

我不是來這裡說資料共享是壞事

I'm not for one minute suggesting that sharing data is a bad thing.

事實上 當我知道某個網站要共享我的資料

In fact, when I know the data that's being shared

I want some sites to understand my habits.

It helps them suggest books for me to read

但當我不知道我的資料被共享 也沒人來問我

But when I don't know and when I haven't been asked,

這就是現今網路普遍存在的現象

In fact, there's an entire industry formed

around following us through the digital woods

他們可以用那些資料做任何他們想做的事情

they can do almost whatever they want with it.

現在可以管這個領域的法規還很少

This is an area today that has very few regulations

除了最近美國及歐洲發佈了一些相關聲明

Except for some of the recent announcements here in the United States and in Europe,

it's an area of consumer protection that's almost entirely naked.

讓我多透露一點這個偷窺業的行為

So let me expose this lurking industry a little bit further.

你現在看到 在我背後的視覺化圖像叫 Collusion（共謀）

The visualization you see forming behind me is called Collusion

這是個實驗性的瀏覽器附加元件

that you can install in your Firefox browser

讓你看到你的網路資料去了哪 以及誰在追蹤你

that helps you see where your Web data is going and who's tracking you.

我並沒有去瀏覽這些網站 但是他們會跟蹤我

that I have not navigated to, but are following me.

藍色的點則是我實際去看了的網站

The blue dots are the sites that I've actually navigated directly to.

而這些灰色的點也是在追蹤我的網站

And the gray dots are sites that are also tracking me,

這些網站都連結在一起 正如你所見

All of them are connected, as you can see,

So let me go from an example to something very specific and personal.

兩週前我在我的筆電上裝了Collusion

I installed Collusion in my own laptop two weeks ago

and I let it follow me around for what was a pretty typical day.

I actually start my day going online and checking email.

I then go to a news site, look for some headlines.

And in this particular case I happened to like one of them

有關學校教音樂素養的好處的報導

on the merits of music literacy in schools

我把它貼在一個社群網站上分享

然後我的女兒跟我們一起吃了早餐

Our daughter then joined us at the breakfast table,

在餐桌上我問她 你學校有沒有特別強調音樂素養

and I asked her, "Is there an emphasis on music literacy in your school?"

她很自然的 就像一般的九歲小孩

And she, of course, naturally as a nine-year-old,

一臉疑惑地看著我 問 什麼是素養

looked at me and said quizzically, "What's literacy?"

So I sent her online, of course, to look it up.

到現在為止我們還沒吃兩口早餐

and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me.

我快快地說一下其餘的一天的狀況

So let me fast-forward through the rest of my day.

我又登錄了幾個社群網站 寫部落格

I log onto a few more social sites, I blog,

又看了幾個新聞 也在網上分享了一下

I check more news reports, I share some of those news reports,

很普通的一天 正確來說是很迂腐的一天

pretty typical day -- in this case, actually fairly pedantic --

and at the end of the day, as my day winds down,

that are now tracking my personal information,

絕大部份網站都沒經過我的同意

I look at this picture and it freaks me out.

這沒什麼！ 就是我在網路上被跟蹤罷了！

This is nothing. I am being stalked across the Web.