It's scary when you consider how much they know already...

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

This isn't the scary government's doing. There are companies paid to mine your data, enter it into searchable databases, and then sell them to marketing companies. Telemarketers know a metric shit ton about you before they ever click "dial".

[Moose-Knuckle]

This isn't the scary government's doing. There are companies paid to mine your data, enter it into searchable databases, and then sell them to marketing companies. Telemarketers know a metric shit ton about you before they ever click "dial".

I don't think the OP was implying that this was the NSA, Big Brother is not limited to only .gov entities. But yeah, if the pizza joint down the street has your data you can just imagine what they have the Utah Data Center.

[skydivr]

My favorite show "Person of Interest"...last night was pretty spot on about data mining...and the NEW twist is some "organization" that wants to stop the government from having it all" It felt uncomfortably close that the writers were making the organization look like the 'tea party terrorists"...gonna have to see which way this goes...

[Doc Safari]

I don't think the OP was implying that this was the NSA, Big Brother is not limited to only .gov entities. But yeah, if the pizza joint down the street has your data you can just imagine what they have the Utah Data Center.

Right. It's bad enough the dot-guv has your info. Now some snot-nosed kid that beats off before he makes your burger knows everything about you too.

[Caeser25]

Odd. The Secret Service had to serve me a subpoena last month for a case they have against a company I briefly had an apprenticeship with 8 years ago. They gave up after going to two wrong addresses and just called me and said we can give it to you tomorrow or swing by your work sometime. Dude was pretty cool. The security desk was asking all kind of questions and he pretty much said this is an open investigation, they can **** off, this is none of their business.

[TAZ]

Right. It's bad enough the dot-guv has your info. Now some snot-nosed kid that beats off before he makes your burger knows everything about you too.

And people wonder why identity theft is a growth industry. How could it not be with all this crap floating about the lowest bidder built clouds.

I agree that we are too far past Big Brother to even consider having any kind of privacy. So I usually try to have fun with it. Some days I'm a neurosurgeon others I'm a garbage man. Once in a while I was born in February some time I was bin in December. Have fun with it and see what comes back in junk mail. Maybe he way to overcome the privacy thing is to just inundate the system with useless data and see what happens.

[Moose-Knuckle]

And people wonder why identity theft is a growth industry. How could it not be with all this crap floating about the lowest bidder built clouds.

I agree that we are too far past Big Brother to even consider having any kind of privacy. So I usually try to have fun with it. Some days I'm a neurosurgeon others I'm a garbage man. Once in a while I was born in February some time I was bin in December. Have fun with it and see what comes back in junk mail. Maybe he way to overcome the privacy thing is to just inundate the system with useless data and see what happens.

I always like to give my self titles like Doctor Reverend.

[Moltke]

You can run.

But you cannot hide.

[Javelin]

You can run.

But you cannot hide.

If you're running you're going the wrong way I always say.