Privacy lost: Does anyone care ?

Someday a stranger will read your e-mail, rummage through your instant messages without your permission or scan the Web sites you’ve visited — maybe even find out that you read this story.

You might be spied in a lingerie store by a secret camera or traced using a computer chip in your car, your clothes or your skin.

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This is why I hate living in the new millenium. Everybody thinks they have a right to other people's information. I'm one of those people that think telephone companies shouldn't be able to give my info out for a price. If they do that whats next? My doctor giving out my medical history so companies can call me to switch to their medicine. I don't like being called at my home by people who got my number from someone who won't be getting a call. I don't even think famous people like actors should have their personal info under scrutiny. This kind of thing caters to the lowest form of intellect out there, bunch a dummies.

It is a bit funny that this article is directed at America. Americans have the most privacy in the world today, although after 9/11 I do agree that the level of privacy is shrinking.

In London you are videotaped 300 times a day, in New York only 75, on average. In China the government controls all access to the internet. I have heard that the average Chinese citizen does not even know about Tiananmen Square.

If you are an upstanding citizen you should have nothing to worry about. Don't talk about drugs or bombs on the phone, just common sense. Don't post pictures that may be compromising, if you wouldn't show the pictures to strangers don't put it on the internet. In other words use common sense when using modern technology.

I have looked myself up on the internet and I have found all my past addresses and phone numbers. Does it bother me? A little is the true answer. Do I have anything to hide from my government? No!

What does bother me is the criminal element that has access to the same information. Do I use a credit card over the internet? No, because of the hackers and other internet related crimes.

With a higher level of government security on the internet it has become a slightly safer place. Nearly everyday you can see stories about the FBI catching a child predator using the internet. The decreasing level of privacy that Americans are feeling is not the government trying to spy. It is the government trying to keep us safe from the "bad" people of the world.

The best idea, IMO, is to treat the internet and anything you do outside your home, or on the phone, as if you are being watched and listened to. Because chances are you will be one day.

God Bless America!

BTW: The day I wake up and find a camera or other listening device in my home will be the day I feel my privacy has been compromised.

This scares the living CRAP out of me

The main problem is that it will never end. It will just get worse and we will just be forced to accept it as the norm because "the powers that be" control the technology. It is sad that the majority of people that it is meant to protect is the ones that will be most vunerable to this.

If some one is really bothered by all the tech tracking it is still possible to avoid it. First no home computers , only work or public access. No cell phones , most new one's have GPS chips in them. Only use land lines. Only use public transportation so no Drivers licence to be used as an ID.

You get the idea. You would end up in a cave , with a creek for running water. An the DNR would still be watching you.

In an age where one man can take out an entire city with a WMD, privacy can be a deadly luxery. We will adapt.

Do I have anything to hide from my government? No!

In an age where one man can take out an entire city with a WMD, privacy can be a deadly luxery. We will adapt.

I hope that was a joke / e-sarcasm... remind us what one has to do with the other? Should we assume this lone WMD detonating nut works for the "good guys"..?

I would hope that most people would rather not adapt to becoming a suspect by birth, instead of a citizen. To a world where everyone is guilty until proven innocent, where we turn to politically motivated, and funded sources such as the New York Times and Fox News for our information (that can't be true, I didn't see it on the NEWS!). A world where we rely on the government to tie our shoes and tuck us in bed at night, spoon feeding us big mouthfuls of FDA approved and highly nutritious food (it's GOOD! Buy Diet!). Then it's off to work where we often earn wages lower than the cost of living, paid for by wondrous debt notes printed by private bankers, on loan to the United States and never backed by precious metals (see: anything of real value.. instead of.. erm.. paper). But I suppose the terrorists are the real threat..

My point is, the real threat (in this case) is the security measures. It's a threat to the last remaining freedoms we have. Remind me what is left after we have no freedom?

If people keep mindlessly applauding these new "security" measures put forth under the guise of (manufactured) terrorism, they are only unwittingly begging for enslavement. (Oh yea, intelligence agencies are GOOD too!)

Well, I suppose domesticated animals adapted!

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(Of course, I know some citizens of say, London or Tokyo might think this stuff is great! -ok that was e-sarcasm.)

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**EDIT**

By freedom, I meant freedom. Privacy, free speech and fair trial come to mind...

Edited October 23, 2006 by eez

It is a bit funny that this article is directed at America. Americans have the most privacy in the world today, although after 9/11 I do agree that the level of privacy is shrinking.

If you are an upstanding citizen you should have nothing to worry about.

These days "upstanding" means that you used to use cocaine, but your Daddy got you out of it, so you could get elected to the highest office in the land one day, and start a war to rescue your Daddy's legacy. Most of us don't get the chance to be so "upstanding."

We will adapt.

I disagree i think people especially americans will not adapt i know that i wont adapt.

How can one feel secure at times like these...? It's the golden age of pervs.

TeraLink Was Here!

These days "upstanding" means that you used to use cocaine, but your Daddy got you out of it, so you could get elected to the highest office in the land one day, and start a war to rescue your Daddy's legacy. Most of us don't get the chance to be so "upstanding."

daddy takes care of everything

daddy takes care of everything

Yeah, Big Daddy does too.

What the hell is this suppose to mean?

I hate to be dense , but I didn't get the picture ether . What am I missing Bella?