Our Digital Identity

England is the most watched country in the world, more so than China and America. On average we are caught on camera around three hundred times a day. Everything we do is monitored, it is now impossible to make your way through life without leaving a single digital footprint. Your digital life starts before you are even born, when your mother has a sonogram, that sonogram is saved onto the hospital's database, thus your digital identity is born before you are born. From then on everything you do is monitored, your school records, your passport, with the invention of the oyster card you can not even take a trip on the tube without people knowing about it. Every time you buy something with your credit card a record is made of it, every time you drive in a car past a speed camera and you are speeding your photo is taken and it is saved onto a database, CCTV cameras plague our streets, and this is not to mention all the info that the government have on us.
So that is all the information that people have on us without our consent, to be honest we can not do anything about it, no matter how scary we find it, to be honest Orwell's prediction of "Big Brother is watching you" has come true. But what do let ourselves into? What digital information do we give about ourselves to the world and how much can someone tell from that information? I myself have a Facebook, a blog, a Google mail account, and an MSN account. Although all of these are private it is still possible for others to hack onto these accounts. If they did get onto these pages what would they find out about me? Well to be honest nothing that I would not mind them knowing, I have been very careful about what I put on these accounts, at the most they would find out my name, my friends and they would see a few photos of me. When you Google my name you get 45,900,000 results, clearly this gives me extra protection as they would have to trawl through pages and pages to find anything about me, and at the most they would probably find something that I wrote on someone's facebook years ago, even that would not bother me as I have been very careful as to keep what I say on other people's pages not to personal, in case someone like a future employer found it. Having a facebook account makes me a little more exposed, but you still get thousands of results when you search my name.
In conclusion I think the fact that records of what we do are splattered across the internet is nothing to be scared of, so long as we are sensible with how we behave on the internet. As for the government having so much info on us, there is nothing we can do but hope it does not fall into the wrong hands.