"1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual"

[The Dad Fisherman]

Does anyone, who is afraid of the vision of 1984 - "Big Brother is Watching"....Have a MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter Acount.....makes it pretty easy

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Does anyone, who is afraid of the vision of 1984 - "Big Brother is Watching"....Have a MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter Acount.....makes it pretty easy

There's a difference between the voluntary dissemination of personal information and a complete invasion of privacy through illegal search and surveillance techniques.

I have a Facebook and Twitter account. However, I filter the information made available on there based to broad info that is pretty readily available through other means. On the other hand, I do not post to Facebook about my personal browsing habits, purchases on Amazon, the restaurants I eat at, every location I go to and the people I associate with on a daily basis.

[JohnR]

Funny - 1984 (the year) I was living overseas where we had to be vigilant , aware, and prepared in case some yahoo terrorist, communist, (Bader Meinhof/RAF/ Dem Greeks) or terrorist, islamic militant (Libya anyone), or dictator (Libya two strikes) because people were blowing things up.

So while it is easy to scream Big Brother, there is also a bit of prudence that rational people should take to be aware and prepared.

[Slingah]

[justplugit]

Throw in credit card records, EZ Pass, and now Govt. wanting everyones
health records your pretty much covered.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

There's a difference between the voluntary dissemination of personal information and a complete invasion of privacy through illegal search and surveillance techniques.

Oh, I know there's a difference....I just get a kick out of the fact that people used to freak out about Big Brother watching when home computers were in there infancy.....and now everyone volunteers everything you ever wanted to know about them to the entire world w/ out a second thought.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Oh, I know there's a difference....I just get a kick out of the fact that people used to freak out about Big Brother watching when home computers were in there infancy.....and now everyone volunteers everything you ever wanted to know about them to the entire world w/ out a second thought.

We had a Co-Op student one time in the Arkitext depahtment that used to disconnect the network cable AND POWER cable every night before leaving work because he felt the NSA and other guvmint entities were monitoring his computer at night when no one was looking. And that they were so good they could infiltrate the computer over the power cord.