Tuesday, June 12, 2012

DO YOU WANT PRIVACY OR A SAFE LIFE?

It always makes me chuckle when (and it is usually old ladies with no idea of the world or the Internet) who think they have privacy.  They do not send email except to people they know and do not buy anything online. They do not understand that there is no such thing as privacy.  It is big business now to store all the information a company (who collects all the data on individuals) stores and sells.

As though the fat cats haven't earned enough on the rest of us poor innocents, David Rosen has written an excellent article to show 6 Government Surveillance Programs Designed to Watch What You Do Online.  He advises: "If you are a user of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Craigslist or another popular site, the U.S. security state is watching you."

If you are interested in this subject, click here for the whole article.  Among those watching are:  1. Justice Department, 2. The IRS, 3. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 4. The Defense Department, 5. The FBI, 6. Department of Homeland Security   


The software programs used are probably just as bored as people would be if they had to monitor directly. It would be fun to know what words they search for primarily

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