I just saw a part of a show where someone decides to work together with a TV station and get every moment of his life recorded and sent out on television. A bit like Temptation Island, Survivor and other shows like that.
While searching the Internet, I came across a site that offered tens of reality TV channels. A police agent showing his day-to-day job and several others. I was amazed that people were doing this and were willing to give up so much of their privacy. If they do it freely and agree with it, then, well, it's okay.
But suppose they don't. Suppose they don't know they are being filmed. With today's technology, that is very well possible. After a while they might suspect something is going on that is not normal.
When you participate in programs like Temptation Island, Survivor, Big Brother, The Mole, Peking Express and the like, then you know what you can expect, and you volunteered for it.
Let's use a hypothetical story to point out what I'm trying to write.
A person is being watched in his/her room without that person knowing. People watch, and when they think about something they want that person to do or not to do, that they want to forbid the person from doing, or that they want to force or manipulate, then they fill in a web form and that information is then send to someone else, who makes it happen. They are taking away chances and a normal life of the person being watched. They are forcing, manipulating, interfering, influencing, watching somebody's life. Like in that movie that came out a while ago, where somebody was born and raised in a film studio.
It may sound far fetched but how long is it going to be before it really happens?
Doing so, they can ruin many chances for that person, force him down a path he doesn't like, ruin his health and his future. Now suppose that the people who are forcing, influencing, manipulating, interfering, and watching this person — let's call him/her person Q — go a step furthe, and influence either person Q's financial status or that of people related to him/her. The people watching — let's call them Z — force person Q to keep doing this, and as such keep him hostage, unable to live his own life as he would want to. This may sound far fetched but I would be very surprised if it is not already happening.
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