More reason to stay off the net?

[XabbaRus]

I was reading an article on the BBC about augmented reality and how it is slowing rolling out, for example mobile phones where you point the camera at the scene around you and information on shops locations, and on some systems friends on social networking sites comes up.

However it also mentioned issues concerning privacy.

This has got me thinking that the more the net gets advanced the better it is to spend less time on it or limit yourself to where you go.

I'm in the process of changing my internet provider and after that I'm going to really limit where I go. I've never done MySpace and Facebook etc....I've probably got a big enough electronic footprint already but still, no point making it bigger.

[Schroeder]

One has to watch ones privacy now more than ever. It has become so easy to collect data of people.

[Castout]

Too late for me. My sig kind of exposes me but I consider it a small price to pay if people could be alerted.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

One has to watch ones privacy now more than ever. It has become so easy to collect data of people.

It happens all the time, you cannot shield yourself from it. But you must not help to increase the effect beyond what you cannot avoid when going online, using your chip-healthcare card or your EC card and must enter your data in an office - for example by joining a "social network". People voluntarily join things like Facebook, cannot be helped. What you can do is paying in cash instead by card, travel by train instead of plane, and in general refuse to always pick the easy choice in everyday life when there is an alternative. Because many of these easy options are data- and chip-dependent.

And also be aware that every word you ever type in a forum, runs through automatic intel-filters searching for suspicious word combinations, names, synatx constellations, etc personalised language anomalies, etc. There are certainly things I would never type in a forum, or send via email (not to mention why I should make them known to a wide public at all). Same ammount of caution should be used when picking up your cellphone.

[Jimbuna]

Ah well, back off to the cave I go then

More and more services are going online and equally more and more the net is a dangerous place. More passwords, more chances of identity theft etc.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Ah well, back off to the cave I go then

1 or 0. Black or white. All or nothing at all.

It must be entertaining to think in absolutes.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by skybird

1 or 0. Black or white. All or nothing at all.

It must be entertaining to think in absolutes.

Absolutely

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Absolutely

Absolutely entertaining.

[jimbob]

[Task Force]

lol... And thats why I live in my secret underground bunker...