Big brother will know everything you will ever do on the internet

[Friend 81]

there will never be a private area on the internet again

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/4-high-tech-ways-federal-government-spying-private-153556125.html

[Junko 2,815]

O.o

[XIIISwords 1,059]

OMG

 

So you mean big brother Tommy Pickles is watching Dill Pickle's internet?

 

That's wrong.

[King Riku 2,063]

Wow. If they read my email...They'll really think something's wrong with me

I hope they are entertained by my browsing history though...>http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/smiley-cool.png

 

 

Honestly though, as long as they don't actually mess with anything on the internet, or with my stuff, I'm not really bothered. Chances are I'll never meet the person viewing mine, so wtf do I have to be worried about?

[Amon 4,279]

Meh, if you don't feel comfortable reading it to the entire world, you probably shouldn't write it.

Edited May 8, 2012 by Fredfredbug4

[Rob 5,571]

Hope the government didn't see me fap when I was playing Birth by Sleep.

[Ryan 188]

YAY! /sarcasm

 

Just great, just really firetrucking great. SOPA and PIPA passed in another form and in an easier way to win.

 

Just perfect!

[The One Truth 48]

Meh, i rarely use my emails, never really on FB don't have a twitter so meh i couldn't care as much as some would.

[dusk 910]

Meh, I don't use my FB too often. Check my e-mail once in month, don't have twitter: as Pewdie would say: I DON'T CAREEEEE!

[Think Pink 1,967]

On a certain level, I understand people are upset because they feel like they should have privacy, but this seriously changes NOTHING, guys. Things you post on social media? Everyone can see all of that stuff anyway. No real change there. Your email? Things can be forwarded. People probably forward emails you've sent to other people without letting you know. You might not even want those people to see it. You think the government gives a crap about most of the stuff you're writing about in your emails? Yeah, didn't think so. Keeping track of what websites you visit? Well they're not going to call your mommy and daddy and tell them "tommy did this and this and this..." What do you have to hide, honestly? They don't know you, and since most of the screening will be done by machines, probably no one will ever even know.

[TheApprenticeofKingMickey 3,689]

Not American. So I'm okay as can be, if you can even be okay on the internet. :U

[4Everbee 1,365]

Yep, We're all firetrucked.

[nlh0012 39]

*sigh* I think the us government needs to rethink it's priorities. Our economy is more or less on the brink of collapsing and they're spending money spying on the average joe. No wonder our country's in serious debt.

Edited May 10, 2012 by Dragoncat

[VoidXName 346]

Seriously, what's next? Ugh

[Amon 4,279]

Obama 2012

 

You can HOPE that the government will be able to hack your webcam and watch you CHANGE your underwear. (UCWATIDIDTHAR?)

[Weedanort 8,786]

All rubbish in my opinion.

 

Why would they even spy on what we're doing?

 

Do they actually think that we're importing weapons online?

[Miku Hatsune 636]

I thought this has been going on for a long time?

[Geralt 4,874]

So much for Privacy Settings and Privacy Court settlements

[Xenidal 36]

The only thing on that list that is even an issue is the first one.

The second one has no impact on most people at all and there's nothing wrong with them choosing to gather data / keep files on people anyway... especially people who they are considering hiring. Almost every job has some sort of background check and I'd expect certain government jobs to have a more thourough background check than your run-of-the-mill job.

The third one is complete nonsense -- Facebook status messages have always been and always will be public. It's as much of an "invasion of privacy" to read a Facebook status as it is to read a message on some random guy's shirt in public.

The fourth one already happens... it's just not the government requiring it. But ISPs really do keep those sorts of records.

 

As for the first one, yes, that is an invasion of privacy if it is done in the manner that this article describes (although I wouldn't take this article as 100% accurate considering it has a clear bias toward the position that "the government is out to get you").

Anyway, it's common sense to not put anything important / private (credit card numbers, passwords, etc.) in an e-mail. E-mail is incredibly insecure and can be intercepted by hackers relatively easily... a general rule-of-thumb is to never put anything in an e-mail that you wouldn't send through the mail on a post card. As much of an "invasion of privacy" that that is... there really shouldn't be anything all that private in the e-mails to begin with.

That, and it would literally be impossible for the government to actually read all of everyone's e-mails in the first place. And those government employees are not just sitting around making jokes to each other "Hey, this guy sent this embarrassing e-mail out to his girlfriend. He's such a fool" etc. And neither will they look for people's passwords / credit card numbers and commit identity theft. The government simply does not have time to do stuff like that... most likely they'll use some sort of search / sorting program to single out e-mails with certain keywords (e-mails which are more likely to be sent from terrorists or from cyber criminals) and read the indicated parts of those e-mails.

Yes, it's still an invasion of privacy... but it will have practically no impact on the average e-mail user whatesoever.

Edited May 25, 2012 by Xenidal

[Geralt 4,874]

The only thing on that list that is even an issue is the first one.

The second one has no impact on most people at all and there's nothing wrong with them choosing to gather data / keep files on people anyway... especially people who they are considering hiring. Almost every job has some sort of background check and I'd expect certain government jobs to have a more thourough background check than your run-of-the-mill job.

The third one is complete nonsense -- Facebook status messages have always been and always will be public. It's as much of an "invasion of privacy" to read a Facebook status as it is to read a message on some random guy's shirt in public.

The fourth one already happens... it's just not the government requiring it. But ISPs really do keep those sorts of records.

 

As for the first one, yes, that is an invasion of privacy if it is done in the manner that this article describes (although I wouldn't take this article as 100% accurate considering it has a clear bias toward the position that "the government is out to get you").

Anyway, it's common sense to not put anything important / private (credit card numbers, passwords, etc.) in an e-mail. E-mail is incredibly insecure and can be intercepted by hackers relatively easily... a general rule-of-thumb is to never put anything in an e-mail that you wouldn't send through the mail on a post card. As much of an "invasion of privacy" that that is... there really shouldn't be anything all that private in the e-mails to begin with.

That, and it would literally be impossible for the government to actually read all of everyone's e-mails in the first place. And those government employees are not just sitting around making jokes to each other "Hey, this guy sent this embarrassing e-mail out to his girlfriend. He's such a fool" etc. And neither will they look for people's passwords / credit card numbers and commit identity theft. The government simply does not have time to do stuff like that... most likely they'll use some sort of search / sorting program to single out e-mails with certain keywords (e-mails which are more likely to be sent from terrorists or from cyber criminals) and read the indicated parts of those e-mails.

Yes, it's still an invasion of privacy... but it will have practically no impact on the average e-mail user whatesoever.

 

You and your long nonsense business man paragraphs >:I The jobs yours of being Dictator of Hell