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I remember a university professor who is a criminologist say that you would be amazed at the amount of information the Government could collect on you.
Originally posted by smirkley
So I am watching the Nightly News tonight,..
And one topic is the On-Star in cars is now being used to find stolen cars, down to the street they are on.
Right then it occurred to me (albiet a bit too late, as usual) I am not suprised!
My every movement is being tracked.
Originally posted by smirkley
So I am watching the Nightly News tonight,..
And one topic is the On-Star in cars is now being used to find stolen cars, down to the street they are on.
Right then it occurred to me (albiet a bit too late, as usual) I am not suprised!
My every movement is being tracked.
The car I drive may be remotely pinpointing me. When I go to the airport, the feds have already reviewed the passenger list. On the way to the airport, two cop cars call in my licence but dont pull me over. I was on the cell phone, so my conversation was tracked and monitored. And traced to my caller, as well as the cells I passed thru. Keyword scanning computers were checking my verbal usage for key word hits. Before I left I checked my email, and got a virus(?) worm that exploited my email box, index.dat, and pwd files. My email was scanned for content prior to it being delivered. (ask your isp,...scanned for virii and attachments.) And of course the email was keyword scanned also. Cookies on my computer report bits of my click habits, and send them to a clearinghouse to be assembled with other bits, to create a larger knowledge file on me. (for marketing purposes only of course) I used my credit card on the way. My visa provider tracks my normal usage and area of usage and will disable my card if it falls out of a pattern or area.(Had that happen more than once).
I can only imagine, there is someone in gov, somewhere, who's job entails, pulling my name on a screen, and all the info available is there basically telling everything about me that is current or past, assembled into a pile. Push that thru a profiler program, and they have an idea about my future and mentality. Push it thru a marketing program, and they can predict the market trends for me and my spending habits. The areas I frequent. My vices, my contacts. Pile that into a population analyzer, and the current state of the popluation mood, and direction, and sentiment, can be measured. Maybe even break it down to regions.
Decide what the population will tolerate, or expect, or how to make them tolerate, or accept.
There is nothing I can do, short of becoming a bum, and avoiding any government assistance, to prevent being a part of this!