The first few examples in this documentary are enough to understand the consequences of a few small mistakes that someone could make on the internet — like clicking on a false link. The documentary starts off by showing all of the disadvantages that technology has when considering privacy, but continues by showing all of the affordances that technology can bring us without necessarily putting consumers at risk. Keeping data stored forever is not easy, so potentially keeping our data in the moment is a good way to solve some of the privacy issues we run into today.

This movie scene is all too familiar — I’ve met many people online before I have in person. It’s common with the affordances that social media gives us; how many mutual friends do you have with someone? Where do they work? Do they have a significant other? And what we think about subconsciously; what does that say about who they are?

In this case, Amber Heard’s character in the scene graduated from Yale and seems pretty successful at her job considering her position at the company. So when the scene opens up the man (Liam Hemsworth) already has an impression of who she is and what she might be like.

It all plays into the fact that our online personas are a part of who we are and how we present ourselves. I don’t believe it’s common for anyone to admit that they have seen your profile on social media, so that’s why the woman was a little rattled when Liam Hemsworth’s character admitted to viewing it. It all comes down to an invasion of privacy.

Stark’s Privacy Screens indicate that maintaining privacy in this world is anything but easy. It assumes that privacy isn’t easy to control and requires the help of their product in a busy coffee shop or workplace.

Personally, I’ve never found that I get paranoid when people may glance at my screen. And I’m not even sure there are that many people out there who do that. But it seems to me that Stark thinks protecting computer screens is a good place to start. It assumes that information is stolen from outside the laptop, not within the actual networks of data on a laptop or stored in a database somewhere. The research about privacy proposes a different problem then the one the Stark Privacy Screen claims to solve.