[OT] Big Google Brother

[Peter Haworth]

OK, well I have nothing to say.  Sorry I brought it up in the first place,
let's just get back to Livecode related subjects.
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Timothy Miller <
gandalf at doctortimothymiller.com> wrote:

> Probably no conspiracy, yet…
>
> If and when we find out a conspiracy exists, it will be too late to take
> precautions.
>
> On the other hand, if I wanted to be Big Brother, fifteen years from now,
> I would go to work for Google today. (I'd consider Facebook, but I'd
> probably go with Google.) Maybe Google isn't evil today. Fifteen years from
> now, who knows? In any case, my Pappy used to say, "Never trust a man who
> says, 'Trust me.'"
>
> Personally, I take precautions.
>
> I don't log into iGoogle very much, mostly just use plain Google. Maybe
> I'll switch to DuckDuckGo. Don't use Google docs. Don't use Gmail. Change
> my IP every few days.  (If you use iGoogle, log out, do a search on plain
> Google, Google still knows who you are, from your IP address.) I don't use
> Facebook. If I did, I would post very little personal information, and
> would not use the chat feature - I would chat on another service. I back up
> documents and LC stacks on the cloud, but I encrypt them first. Block
> tracking cookies. Clear my cookies and cache pretty often, including LSO
> cookies. And so on.
>
> In the words of the Grateful Dead:
>
> When they come to take you down,
> When they bring that wagon round,
> When they come to call on you,
> And drag your poor body down,
> Just one thing I ask of you…
> Please forget that you know my name,
> Please forget that you know me.
>
> When I was in high school, lo these many years ago, every high school
> student read 1984. Russia and most of Eastern Europe were totalitarian
> dictatorships infested with informers and secret police. We were scared it
> could happen here. How soon we forget!
>
> Now that technology makes it so much easier for Big Brother to exist, no
> one seems worried about it.
>
> Tim
>
> On May 15, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote:
>
> > On 16/05/2012, at 8:40 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, another conspiracy theorist I see!
> >
> > All conspiracy theories aside, there *is* something to be said about
> giving Google, Facebook et al less of your personal information:
> >
> > http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
> >
> > --
> > Igor Couto
> > Sydney, Australia
>
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