Rant privacy

[Clarke Hammer]

Big Brother isn't just watching any longer. Now he's interactive. Selling your info between companies is big business these days.

It's not Big Brother; it private enterprise and the average joe is allowing it. If it was the government doing it, much of this tracking and sharing would be blurry with violating the Fourth Amendment. But when we use the networks of private enterprises like Google and Facebook, we voluntarily sign away our rights to privacy by agreeing to their terms of use, sometimes explicitly and other times implicitly.

The collective "We" are also our own worst enemy regarding the First Amendment. How often do we now see news stories about people filing or encouraging an online petition or protest about a brand because someone associated with the brand said something that could be perceived (by some) as offensive? We are voluntarily eroding our rights, not the govt in these cases.

 

[vonn]

I just assume they know everything that I am involved in.you can run but you can't hide in today's world. Information on you comes from every interaction you have.

 

[sar4937]

In case you missed the Zuckerberg testimony, they are looking into total internet coverage of the USA. Using passenger jets and the like to wirelessly connect the country. Amazon wants to leave packages in the trunk of your car, do you give them a key? Or is there a universal remote code on new cars we don't know about?