Just make sure your VPN/proxy provider isn't hosted in the same country as yourself and by a reputable company.

I agree. You won't find me on any of those weirdo websites. Only a handful of forums, Xbox Live, and Youtube. That's about it. Someone could find what music I like, what movies I watch, what games I play, and not much else. Couple random things posted in forums. But those are things that I have either directly stated, and/or just flat don't care about. Does it matter that the government knows I went to a Megadeth concert last year? Not unless they want to kill me and have a DeLorean with a Flux Capacitor. I don't like it, but it isn't going to change. The government most likely keeps tabs on everyone, but to them, we're just numbers. Until you go to a popular website offering people money to kill someone. Honestly.

I remember a few years back when everyone was screaming that our privacy was being stripped from us, torn from the very fabric that we call our private lives... not too long ago actually...










..then we invented facebook :facepalm:


So, why doesn't everyone go and take a giant dump for privacy, cuz we gave it away, free of choice.

Also, privacy died after 9/11. Fact of life, please deal with it.

The only way, and I mean only way, to stay even remotely obscure on the intawebz, is to have someone famous who shares your name with you. That way when you get googled, 50.000 pages of the other guy come up, instead of you.

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dunno how I completely overlooked lostinspace's post, but I's been ninja'ed, by a kentucky mile... :banghead:

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Maybe not. But then again, what if you're applying for a suit-and-tie job, and the guy tells you your musical tastes don't fit in ? Right now, we still consider such a web-search and comment as invasive. But I don't know, I feel that if we don't defend our privacy tooth and claw, those kind of things will be seen as a matter of course - why not even check on your latest purchases ? Your medical records ?

Here as everywhere else, there was a big hubhub about fighting internet piracy. Okay, not contesting. But they're offering that you should voluntarily install on your computer a form of spyware, under the pretext to avoid 'false positive' when you get nicked for piracy. Argument ? "The innocent have nothing to hide". :blink: With that kind of argument, you can defend the idea to put a camera in your room and car, to deter from crime.

Just saying, the concept of private life becomes blurry in people's mode of life (facebook), in the media, and in even the declaration of politicians. Now it's not so much a problem with what governements could do with it - you've got a point when you speak of numbers, although provided the elections turn wrong, you might not be so keen to test your luck - as what it could mean at a lower level (other people encroaching, companies, insurances trying to find loopholes, etc).

You can take our credit card numbers, you may take our IP addresses... but you will never take OUR INTERNETZ!

Pretty much hit the nail on the head. Excellent.

I don't think we should be using Facebook as an argument here. Anything that goes on Facebook is entirely of our own accord. I barely use it, but when I do I'm not going to go posting my medical history and porm habits. I'm not paranoid about the government/other organizations getting access to my browsing history, as there are so many people using the Internet that it would be nearly impossible for them to extract usable data for one person from it all. Also, I don't have anything to hide.

This is an outrage. I don't care whether they'd be watching everyone at every moment or not, that fact of the matter is that it is a blatant disregard for personal privacy. And please don't come back with "Well it won't matter if you don't do anything wrong." That is NOT the point. No government should have this much power, Big Brother should not exist. 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual!

I know it seems like I'm over-reacting, and I probably am, but seriously all the big-brother-esque things are really getting on my nerves. I challenge you to find a street corner in any city or large town that doesn't have video cameras watching.

No cameras on the streets where I live and it's a town of about like 700,000.

Cameras where I live :/

Well yeah, I hear the east coast is getting pretty bad like that. Hear there are cameras all over in England and Scotland too.

You sure they aren't speeding cameras?

I'm pretty sure.

When I was in London, every where I went there were cameras spying on people. It felt eerie all the time.

Except yer porm habits.. sicko :sick:


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