Newsweek posted this article about big brother and our dwindling freedom of movement. It discusses the way government agencies can track us by our cell phones using broadcasting towers to triangulate where we are down to a city block, or if our phone has a GPS feature, our exact locations . . . and not even need a warrant to do it. In fact, if not for resistance among the judicial community, it might never have come to light that we could be followed in such a way, either in real-time or in saved data.
One of the instances of cited abuse occurred when an agency tried to get records of all the people at a union labor protest. The exciting thing about that is when you feel like engaging in a peaceful demonstration against publications that only print stories and poems written by their own editors or against skinny jeans or against pop divas or against tracking people by their cell phones without their knowledge, you can do so knowing that your name, conveniently pulled from your cell phone records, will go on a list. Everyone loves to be on a list.
R.
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Protesting skinny jeans. Now that's an idea I can get behind.
Pop divas in skinny jeans texting on their cell phones: the trifecta! I'd be willing to have my name put on a list for protesting against that. :)
It really is alarming, though, when you consider how illusory anonymity and privacy are in the digital age. Not that most of us *need* the ultimate level of privacy most of the time, but the potential for abuse is huge. What really burns my bacon is how the masses of information about us are legally exploited by corporations that want to hit our "buy-now" buttons.
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