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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I'd like to pose something to consider here..... IF these folks really did draw attention JUST for searching terms that made the JTTF in that area think they had winners to go arrest? WHAT does that say about *US*? Seriously, think about that for a moment.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I don't know about anyone else here, but a few months ago, while making my very own Youtube channel, I discovered something. Youtube tracked and had for my review, EVERY video I have EVER viewed on their site. That includes ones clicked to view through ATS. Didn't matter. Youtube still saw it was ME and recorded it for my 'Play History'. The list went back multiple years....YEARS...and before I HAD a login with Youtube or Gmail to have thought they could correlate my online viewing to one account for index.
(throws stacks of papers into the air) So much for any concept of privacy or illusions of anonymity to anyone but other users just like ourselves.
Originally posted by MessOnTheFED!
reply to post by abeverage
When you are done saving the entire planet by yourself please report back and let everyone know how it went.
MOTF!
Again, welcome to the party (or congrats on helping continue it if you're pretending to be surprised ).
Originally posted by boncho
In fact, I'm thinking about all the searches I did now simply to debunk rumours and lies surrounding the event and I probably searched for a bunch of stuff related, as did thousands of others simply to seek out information omitted in the news.
if you are my exceedingly curious news junkie of a twenty-year-old son, you click a lot of links when you read the myriad of stories. You might just read a CNN piece about how bomb making instructions are readily available on the internet and you will in all probability, if you are that kid, click the link provided.
www.theguardian.com
Members of what she described as a "joint terrorism task force" descended on Catalano's home on Wednesday. A spokesman for the FBI told to Guardian on Thursday that its investigators were not involved in the visit, but that "she was visited by Nassau County police department … They were working in conjunction with Suffolk County police department."
A Nassau County police spokesman later said the department's officers were not involved. The Guardian has contacted the Suffolk County police department for comment.
Originally posted by MessOnTheFED!
Who to believe?!
MOTF!
Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by ErgoTheEgo
Again, welcome to the party (or congrats on helping continue it if you're pretending to be surprised ).
On this one? I actually AM surprised. I probably shouldn't be...but then again, why not be? They got alerted by a search on a couple relatively harmless words in the right context?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I'd like to pose something to consider here..... IF these folks really did draw attention JUST for searching terms that made the JTTF in that area think they had winners to go arrest? WHAT does that say about *US*? Seriously, think about that for a moment.
I don't know about anyone else here, but a few months ago, while making my very own Youtube channel, I discovered something. Youtube tracked and had for my review, EVERY video I have EVER viewed on their site. That includes ones clicked to view through ATS. Didn't matter. Youtube still saw it was ME and recorded it for my 'Play History'. The list went back multiple years....YEARS...and before I HAD a login with Youtube or Gmail to have thought they could correlate my online viewing to one account for index.
So again.... If a couple terms searched *IS* all it takes to get their attention.........anyone see where I'm going yet?
That tells me, for the majority of us? We have not only BEEN checked out, but we continue to be checked out on a regular basis, after tripping their wires and alarms on keywords & concepts. People wonder if "they" know who "we" are? This story tells me they not only know, but HAVE known and are fine with it, for now. They have been all along.....
(throws stacks of papers into the air) So much for any concept of privacy or illusions of anonymity to anyone but other users just like ourselves.
Originally posted by instigatah
...and the stories released through the various news agencies appearing to be every bit as absurd as they really are.....but for a purpose......and that purpose...that reason is.....
to keep people scared.....to get people to self censor...