… somebody’s WAtching meeeeee.
From one of my favorite magazines comes the story that we are being watched – a lot more than we know.
Wired Magazine reports that Federal law enforcement obtained telephone GPS data about Sprint customers more than 8 million times in a year. About 220,000 times per day. More than 9000 times per hour. About 3 times per second for every second of the whole year. These numbers don’t even include the data for the remainder of the cellular telephone market.
Must be a lot of criminals in this country.
I liked one of the comments to the article, though:
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
- Benjamin Franklin
I guess Bush and Cheney did not read much of the Poor Richard’s Almanac.
I hate how our privacy is potentially invaded everyday of our lives.
The new technology is wonderful ..but then used wrongfully can harm you.
I hope you don’t mind WC, but I have a question and would appreciate if anyone could enlighten me.
in the past..you could pick up conversations on someone else’s baby monitor of you had one too. (It happened to a neighbor..but she told the other neighbor) Then I know there are scanners where the average person can listen to things.
So..early on..I heard you shouldn’t discuss things on your portable home phone or your cell because people could eves drop. So…any time I have to give out personal info or having a very private conversation.. I use the land line..although ..who knows what the other parties are using.
Then someone told me that the phones today scramble your connection and so I’ got a bit lax about it.
then on the news yesterday..I heard some elderly couple heard some politician’s conversation on his cell and they recorded it.
!!! The news person went on to say that people can record other cell phone conversations.
Obviously this must be true.
SO… Does this mean that any portable means of communication is NOT a secure way to discuss personal info , ss#s, bak accounts, etc?
I know the government can tap into land lines to ..but they’d be bored.
I think if you mention the president, bombs and certain key phrases to often they then hone in.
Interesting quote. I wonder what Mr Franklin would think about everything going on today?
The loss of privacy occurred long before 2001.
“You have zero privacy anyway – Get over it.”
Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems CEO, 26 JAN 1999