It's just amazing what and to whom is really available on the Internet with the proper digging. What really is to stop some unscrupulous individual with good hacking software from creating a data base on strip club patrons threatening to releasing said list for ransom or blackmail, or for a corrupt district attorney or LE to use it as justification to get a warrant to destroy ones reputation. As we all know, the government try's to infiltrate every corner of the Internet under the guise of "public safety" or "prevention of terrorism", and has no hesitation with "accidentally" leaking lists of information to the press, or using it for social-political blackmail. The real issue is that they Internet providers can put safeguards into place to prevent such intrusions, but are afraid to stop the fed from having access. Currently there is a lawsuit in federal court that the justice department want Apple to give them the coded to gain remote backroom access to any Apple device so that they can see what is stored on them, currently Apple is resisting.
Any one who has read the book 1984 remembers the statement "Big Brother is watching you, and he knows what is best!"
Sorry, I kinda get defensive after I go on a rant about the federal government overstepping the authority granted by the constitution eroding our rights
The real scary part is when you make some modest effort to regain some of that privacy, only to learn the extent to which you'd have to go to actually gain any of it & the value others place on having that information about you.
I always shudder when I think of that story back a few years ago about Target figuring out a teenage girl was pregnant based on her purchasing things like unscented lotion and hand sanitizer or something.
Or how if you are looking to buy something online and do a little research and then every time you get on the computer every search engine has that item the first thing that pops up in the search engine
The new FCC regs allow and call for all of the above!
We all have given up privacy for discounts or convenience! Every time you use your Kroger, CVS card or Walgreens card to get that discount they track and sell your purchasing information. Any private purchases you make always use cash and no discount card.
I'm more paranoid about companies! They'll violate privacy in a minute if they could make a profit. Hell, they're doing that already! Not brilliant! :(
Are you paranoid about other TUSCL posters? I'm a bit worried about the guy that's obsessed with zipperhead or juice or whatever. He just seems unbalanced! Not brilliant! :(
I think [view link] or somebody issued a rebuttal to this. They explained how they'd need a server farm the size of the state of Ohio to keep track long term of all the stuff we perverts look at.
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