https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...d-grab-for-google-location-data/#2fc4eba9741d

Back in March, as it investigated a spate of armed robberies across Portland, Maine, the FBI made an astonishing, unprecedented request of Google. The feds wanted the tech giant to find all users of its services who’d been within the vicinity of at least two of nine of those robberies. They limited the search to within 30-minute timeframes around when the crimes were committed. But the request covered a total space of 45 hectares and could’ve included anyone with an Android or iPhone using Google’s tools, not just the suspect.

The FBI then demanded a lot of personal information on affected users, including their full names and addresses, as well as their Google account activity. The feds also wanted all affected users’ historical locations. According to court records, while Google didn’t provide the information, the cops still found their suspect in the end.

 

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Good thing it's "free." I wouldn't want to pay someone to track all of my purchases and then sell that information to content-related advertisers. Amazon by itself is bad enough. Wonder whether I am the only person who interpreted it like that.

John

 

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/03/f...giants-to-build-encryption-backdoors-or-else/

A pact of five nation states dedicated to a global “collect it all” surveillance mission has issued a memo calling on their governments to demand tech companies build backdoor access to their users’ encrypted data — or face measures to force companies to comply.

The international pact — the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, known as the so-called “Five Eyes” group of nations — quietly issued the memo last week demanding that providers “create customized solutions, tailored to their individual system architectures that are capable of meeting lawful access requirements.”

Should governments continue to encounter impediments to lawful access to information necessary to aid the protection of the citizens of our countries, we may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions.

 

we may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions.

In other words: "we will create whatever laws we feel are necessary in order to fully intrude in your private information, and make sure that no secrets are being kept from us"

 

In other words: "we will create whatever laws we feel are necessary in order to fully intrude in your private information, and make sure that no secrets are being kept from us"

Yep, the overlords. Also they have already gotton your privacy and now they will make it legal too. Skype records calls 6 months and messages 3 months. Flash player even records.....

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45523677

Called NovaSAR, it has the ability to take pictures of the surface of the Earth in every kind of weather, day or night.

 

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-...em-that-will-track-rank-all-citizens-by-2020/

... some 600 million high-tech surveillance cameras are employed to monitor China’s 1.4 billion citizens – 20 times the amount already employed in the US

 

Maybe we can get some back.

This sounds mighty interesting.

https://www.fastcompany.com/9024393...-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

 

Maybe we can get some back.

This sounds mighty interesting.

https://www.fastcompany.com/9024393...-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web

Sorry, but I read the article and found it outstandingly unconvincing...

 

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/03/asia/new-zealand-customs-passwords-intl/index.html

While customs officials in multiple countries are permitted by law to search travelers devices, New Zealand is the first country to introduce a fine for those who refuse to hand over passwords or pin numbers to enable this.

 

How about this: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data

People do not care about their privacy as they have merged with social media and have no concept of what privact is anymore. Kids today are packaged and sold online by their own parents... and are told that it is the right thing to do. It really is a brave new world and I actually wish I was older than I am

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/chinese-hackers

Agents with the People’s Liberation Army bribed or bluffed factory officials to change motherboard designs so the Chinese chips could be implanted in the motherboards.

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/chinese-hackers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...ny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

 

Espionage is alive and well.

Ron

 

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/walmar...shopping-carts-to-track-customers-heart-rates

The U.S. retail giant applied for a patent, published in August, for a smart shopping cart that can track a shopper's heart rate, body temperature, grip and walking speed.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/walmar...shopping-carts-to-track-customers-heart-rates

I'm sure there is a study that tells the marketeers about phyiological changes when making emotional purchases.

So expect to walk down an isle to find that purchase.

 

I'm sure there is a study that tells the marketeers about phyiological changes when making emotional purchases.

So expect to walk down an isle to find that purchase.

What I expect next, is for the shopping cart to talk to me and start making suggestions ... now where's the liquor isle where I can find a good bottle of Gin?

 

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/03/edward-snowden-nsa-lawsuit-jewel-authentic/

News of the surveillance broke in 2006 when an AT&T technician Mark Klein revealed that the NSA was tapping into AT&T’s network backbone. He alleged that a secret, locked room — dubbed Room 641A — in an AT&T facility in San Francisco where he worked was one of many around the U.S. used by the government to monitor communications — domestic and overseas. President George W. Bush authorized the NSA to secretly wiretap Americans’ communications shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

 

Privacy lost? You've never really had it since the age of telephones and television. What's changed is the ease of access with modern devices and the willingness of people to talk about and to tell the world every stupid fact about their lives online. The tech companies are the one's that profit from your information and the profit motive drives that's being collected today from digital devices. Follow the money if you want to see Privacy lost.

Couldn't agree more on this. With advancements in tech, if anything we are progressing towards surveillance.
'Facebook was caught sending information to advertisers that could be used to identify consumers without their consent', the only defense this man had was over moral grounds, saying that 'even if I can, I will not disclose this information since its breaches the moral conduct and rights of the users'. But that's just words.

 

I would say with the way people are using social media, we have not just lost privacy, we are actually redefining slavery... Take a look at what parents are doing with their children on line in order to gain "followers" and become "influencers" (just recently learned that word). This is the freedom our ancestors fought for...