Things have changed quickly in the past few years. There was a time when everything wasn't recorded. Today we have cell phone cameras that can literally take your pic in the school gym locker and post it all over the internet. Somone recorded the Saddam hanging with a cell phone camera and posted the video on the internet. Privacy will never be what it once was. .
It's depressing as hell. The majority of our privacy loss is to be blamed on technology, yes, you're right. Now, don't get me wrong, some of the current technology could've been such a great thing, and yes, some of it IS great, but it's been put into some of the wrong hands and I don't know how far it will take us into a frightening future.. but as with many bad things happening within such a short amount of time, much can be blamed on the current president, too. Ahem, can anyone say "Patriot Act?" Damn. Can you imagine not knowing freedom? Honestly, I think we're heading into 1984.. & there's no lookin' back.
Patriot act indeed, now Bush can open your mail without a warrant! Talk about unlawful search and seizure! I'm insecure in my papers! Bustramp
no, not tecnology, but what people want to do with tecnology, what they want it for. and what they want it for and how they want it to do what they want it for creates what is called a market, which means someone thinks then can get fat off of gratifying that desire, so we end up with what are basicly the wrong tecnologies; guns, cars, cell phones, credit cards, corporate media, ... and of course any and all opportunities for abuse they provide. but i don't blame hammers houses can be built with for people hitting each other over the head with hammers, or even anything other then cultural values that accept as somehow natural and inevitable the existence of idiologies and formalized, pseudo-representative hierarchies, neither of which are. i wouldn't mind if everyone had to walk more. maybe fewer people would be as ready to tear up nice places where they could stop and rest their feet if they did. but i don't blame refrigerators for their doing so. also, it was politics, of a particularly nasty, pseudo-conservative "devine right" variety, that was responsible for creating the "stop and search" wedge, (well a man's horse isn't his castle, i think the logic went), or that guy who jumped out of that airplane with all that money so people could be suckered into going along with the begginings of all that airport security mumbo jumbo, (which STILL, as far as i know, no one who works there, including security personell themselves, has to go through every time they go to work, any of whome could always have, even before there was any, have slipped something onto an airplane way more easily then a paying passinger ever could have even then). which incidently, d.b. cooper WAS a cia employee. i know because i knew his kid! back in the 70s, not too many years after it happened. and he didn't die when he jumped out of that airplane, he was back at work the next week, or next month anyway. i think they gave the flunkey a little vacation time or something. no one is ever going to find the 'missing' wad of money either, because, whatever bank transfer records might say to the contrary, none of it ever left the plane with him. that or it was recouvered and either burned or returned to where it was borrowed from. =^^= .../\...
The most important thing to do is NOT HAVE THINGS THEY CAN TRACK YOU WITH! Cell phones,GPS devices,Iphones,etc.......... I dont like any of this NEWER GARBAGE that everyone is so in a rush to "BE THE FIRST TO HAVE"!! I value my privacy and i try to limit what i use,etc because i dont want my life AN OPEN BOOK FOR WHO KNOWS WHO!!
The illusion of privacy has just eroded, the privacy was never there to start with. In 776 BC a list was kept of the first Olympic games. In 1790 the first Census was taken. In 1936 Social Security numbers were instituted. The list goes on. We have never had privacy only the illusion that we did. Today with technology the information is available to anyone determined to find it. That is the difference.
dont let "lack of privacy" trap you and control you someone posts your naked butt and balls on the internet and everyone you knows gets a peek, so what? did you get sick and start loosing all your hair? are you going to become depressed contemplating suicide? if so..then you were bound to do so, with or without "lack of privacy"
Because it's fun to share with friends and I'm not paranoid that the government is tracking the fact that I "like" Button Moon and Ice Cream Sundaes or have a few picures of myself. The stupid advertising people on there track it all though, and that bugs me slightly, but not much I can do.
Exactly......... They wanna find easier ways to send SPAM ADS to you..... (Its really disgusting in a way)
