Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1864197)

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch (Post 1864132)

Surveillance Tracking And (Web)Site Intelligence :yep:

Hey, lets call it The Stasi for short :D

Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1864037)

I, for one, welcome our new totalitarian overlords. :yep:

MUST OBEY...MUST OBEY...

Originally Posted by vienna (Post 1864304)

Sorry, Steve...

The information on page 5 regarding the breaking of encryption is really interesting and really concerning. If the NSA has found a way to enable real time decryption of "strong encryption", how soon afterward do the entities we don't want to have this capability also gain this technology. This sort of tech very rarely stays in-house. How long until someone, say China, Russia, the Mossad, get this and use it against us?

Originally Posted by vienna (Post 1864307)

No, not at that level, but think like a corporate "creep" (couldn't think offhand of a better term) who really wants to know what consumers think and feel. The ability to snoop around your emails or other forms of communication is just too strong a temptation for those types to resist. The spreading use of RFID tags on many consumer products and tools such as credit/debit cards is just a small indication of how far corporations are willing to go to data on you and your activities. And, they are not even goverment agencies...

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Originally Posted by STEED (Post 1864312)

capitalism is dead, corporlism is here and now, its aim is to return slavery to the world. I will gladly die fighting this evil and die a free man.

Originally Posted by krashkart (Post 1864035)

Absolutely. They look out for us all the time, and would never try to take advantage of us. :yep:

Originally Posted by vienna (Post 1864478)

The mention of Facebook and other "social media" brings up another breach of privacy: social network data mining. Here is the Homepage of one such company:

http://www.socialintel.com/

This came to my attention via a radio report on how employers are using these services as a means of finding out about prospective and/or current employees. These services function somewhat like a credit rating service except they have a much broader reach via social networking. This little bit of snooping came up also in a report about how employers are now out-of-hand rejecting applications for employment from apllicants who are not currently employed. In other words, you can't get a job unless you already have a job. It used to be you had to have experience to get a job, but you couldn't get experience because you couldn;t get a job. Now, you can't get a job because you don't have a job...

Adding the component af social network checks to already existing background checks (credt, employment, criminal, etc.) adds just one more layer and obstacle to those otherwise qualified who may not pass the muster of these checks. Oh, and don't think you can get by with cleaning up your social network page just before you go job hunting or anything else requiring a background check; the report said these "Social Intelligence"-type services keep an ongoing search of social sites, so something you deleted/erased may still be in their archives...

Not enpugh to raise your ire? how about how some of these services are also checking into those who are listed as "friends" or contacts on your social site? Don't smoke pot or belong to a suspect organozation or group, etc? Well, maybe a friend does; sort of guilt (orat least suspicion) by association... :nope:

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