You are tagged!

In many countries pets like dogs are tagged with chips under statutory requirement. This is for the sake of strayed animals so that info of owner can be retrieved easily. Most of the people don't know they are also "tagged" in another way. So they are curious how they are tagged because they have not been implanted a chip into their bodies.

However, they forget they are holding a mobile phone almost every minute during their awakening time, some even when sleeping. So what do mobile phones relate to tagging then? And who tagged them at all and why?

Mobile phone not only stores many of the personal particulars and files. It is very useful and entertaining but indeed it is the backdoor that opens the access to parties not limited to hackers whom are interested in knowing everything of you. Hackers are interested in your money mostly but there are someone whom are more concerned about your activities. That is the big brother, ie., governments.

It is well known that the GPS function of mobile phones reveals the whereabout of the owners. Even it was switched off but the GSM signal still discloses the location. Very often there were scenarios in the films how police tracked a target as long as he/she is holding a mobile phone.

Except the whereabout of the owner, mobile phones provide a backdoor to check the owner's activities through viewing, secretly, on what apps used, websites browsed, photos taken, phone conversation made with whom...etc. As there are more and more functions feasible with a mobile phone, there is indeed an increasing level of disclosing our privacy. I sometimes suspect if there is any connection on the mobile phone product development with the government surveillance scheme. Naturally there is no official cooperation on such move but when governments put it at the level of national security then it makes thing reasonable and necessary.

So when mobile companies launch new models with fantastic functions, it is in one way for the sake of business purpose, on the other hand it lures more and more people to use them. This is what the governments want to see because that means more and more people are under surveillance as long as they are holding a mobile phone.

This is a triple win situation. The mobile phone companies have more business, the users are fascinated with new features and the governments got people "tagged" willingly.