Web Scammer or Big Brother ?

[4 Scale]

Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

Google is NOT your friend.

True. There's a saying with data security folks: if you don't know what the product is, you're the product. Google being the most perfect and ubiquitous example.

IMO for all practical purposes there is nothing free on the internet. You pay for it via disclosing information when you visit those sites.

I love maps, navigation, stuff like that. Years ago when I heard the Govt. was going to make GPS available to all, my first reaction was not "oh goody" but "why?" It didn't smell right.

Now I know. They know where you live, work, everywhere you go and everything you do (inferred, when you have your cell phone with you).

Unless you are using encryption and/or other security measures, you should assume that everything you do online is observed by commercial interests/the Govt. And cross-matched and correlated to you personally. And then compared to other data sets to take many very good guesses at what you like, don't like, believe, etc.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by 4 Scale

Unless you are using encryption and/or other security measures, you should assume that everything you do online is observed by commercial interests/the Govt. And cross-matched and correlated to you personally.

What?!?! You mean the cable TV people are keeping track of what I watch??? The phone people are recording my phone calls??? The Google people are listing my pr0n sites??? Mt car is telling Big Brother every time I visit the supermarket??? The supermarket is listing what I like to eat??? The pharmacy is tallying my prescriptions???

That's crazy!!! You're describing a police state!!! Next you'll be telling me there's a tele-screen behind my bedroom mirror!!! That television news is being manipulated!!! That history is being rewritten!!! That my very existence is being altered!!!

Thank the Lord that we have a benevolent government to guard against such fantasies!!!

/sarcasm

(An interesting read -
https://smleo.com/2017/10/10/the-pow...4-big-brother/ )