Text Alert: Take Cover. Tornado Alert. Take Cover Now
the above text was sent to my phone which I read thirty minutes after the alert expired.
I am visiting folks in Florida. I purchased my phone in New York. However, I got this text. I don't know how it works, but there you go! So how is it any surprise that the government has authority over obtaining phone records from Verizon when this same story was published in 2006 under Bush!
Here's link to that story:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/06/collection-of-phone-records-raises-fresh-questions-about-domestic-spying.html
What about Zuckenberg? What about the banks, the credit card companies, google, et al? Every stroke has always been collected. There is more personal harm in spying by corporations than the government. It's interesting though how the right wing call Snowden a hero. Something is behind this.
JUST ASKING: how did Edward Snowden, a high school drop out expose CIA secrets? He then runs off to Hong Kong? Snowden says he trusts the courts and people there over the US. Maybe he should have finished high school geography before dropping out. I remember a friend who applied for a job with the CIA. Snowden couldn't have possibly passed the vetting process. Is he a plant? If so, who is behind this mess?
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 06, 2013
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
itunes too? More household gods win
2nd day of the year and I need an iTunes upgrade.
This upgrade changed the look of my iTunes and prompted the question do I want to SHARE? This way iTunes can send me what THEY think I would like to listen to. Should I agree? Do I really want a computer program to suggest cultural choices?
I don't own the music in my iTunes, even the cd's i put there that I bought and the music I buy (not cheap) at the iTunes store. I can transfer 11 times only to other devices; and 7 times to a CD.
Clicking on AGREE to any digital contract is the same as signing a contract. And that includes renting the music.
So, the household gods win again.
Got kids and partner? How many devices to play music all together? You could deplete your right to transfer your music to your next device in a year! So, say five years from now I can't transfer myLeonard Cohen and Patti Smith to my new digital device?
Technology is a necessity. But the cost is not affordable for everyone. Add up how much today phone, internet, cable, mobile devices cost a month. All permanent costs that didn't exist a decade ago. I wouldn't care if there was a choice. The only choice I have that is loosing ground is not being on Facebook. Ever since a gov official said the future is using facebook to "inform" the public, I have lost faith in a thinking society.
Not long ago I moved around a lot. Through the years I gave up my vinyl, my cassettes, my CDs (although I still buy CD's). Transferring music from old computer to new has been a challenge. Albums, artists and songs have disappeared. It's just me listening to music, but some of it is gone.
Some artists (like Jack White a fellow Detroiter) are recording on vinyl again because it SOUNDS better. This is not a discovery. It always sounded better.
Music comes from the heart. Without it we loose our love and compassion for life.
Women dressing as strippers and gyrating on the stage is not music or love.
Men vocalizing about smashing women's teeth for better blow jobs is not love or music.
It's commerce.
It's only commerce.
This upgrade changed the look of my iTunes and prompted the question do I want to SHARE? This way iTunes can send me what THEY think I would like to listen to. Should I agree? Do I really want a computer program to suggest cultural choices?
I don't own the music in my iTunes, even the cd's i put there that I bought and the music I buy (not cheap) at the iTunes store. I can transfer 11 times only to other devices; and 7 times to a CD.
Clicking on AGREE to any digital contract is the same as signing a contract. And that includes renting the music.
So, the household gods win again.
Got kids and partner? How many devices to play music all together? You could deplete your right to transfer your music to your next device in a year! So, say five years from now I can't transfer myLeonard Cohen and Patti Smith to my new digital device?
Technology is a necessity. But the cost is not affordable for everyone. Add up how much today phone, internet, cable, mobile devices cost a month. All permanent costs that didn't exist a decade ago. I wouldn't care if there was a choice. The only choice I have that is loosing ground is not being on Facebook. Ever since a gov official said the future is using facebook to "inform" the public, I have lost faith in a thinking society.
Not long ago I moved around a lot. Through the years I gave up my vinyl, my cassettes, my CDs (although I still buy CD's). Transferring music from old computer to new has been a challenge. Albums, artists and songs have disappeared. It's just me listening to music, but some of it is gone.
Some artists (like Jack White a fellow Detroiter) are recording on vinyl again because it SOUNDS better. This is not a discovery. It always sounded better.
Music comes from the heart. Without it we loose our love and compassion for life.
Women dressing as strippers and gyrating on the stage is not music or love.
Men vocalizing about smashing women's teeth for better blow jobs is not love or music.
It's commerce.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Why don't We care about privacy anymore
Today I read in the BBC news that attractive photos of women are being copied from various sources (FB, photo accounts) and used in porn sites and twitter accounts and that more parents and teachers are stealing images of attractive girls for phony FB accounts to get friended by their children and students, so they can spy on them!!
On NPR radio the other day the outgoing president of the FCC said the government is aware of the importance of social media (ha ha) and will use FB to inform users of actions to take in emergencies. During Storm Sandy, I had no heat or electricity and my cell phone did not work for a week. How would FB help in this case?
Is anyone surprised that Verizon has applied for a patent for a device in future TV's that will detect watchers' emotions? If you are watching a movie, you will see an ad for popcorn; if you are getting cozy with someone, you will see an ad for condoms. What would be the ad for two women holding hands? "Buy one pair of shoes and get the second one half off?
When I was thirteen I received a diary for xmas. It had a lock, which I lost. My father made me a new one. It never occurred to me that he could make another lock and open my diary. I wasn't given the gift to be spied on. I was given the diary with the understanding it was mine. Private. I knew my father would not make that lock.
Not everyone keeps a diary but apparently every teen has a FB page. The results for marketers and advertisers are clear. The consequences are pretty scary.
I have not had and never will have a FB account. It is Big Brother. It will sell you to advertisers for it's own profits and it will sell you to the government as well. Join me!
Any takers? Tea party members?
On NPR radio the other day the outgoing president of the FCC said the government is aware of the importance of social media (ha ha) and will use FB to inform users of actions to take in emergencies. During Storm Sandy, I had no heat or electricity and my cell phone did not work for a week. How would FB help in this case?
Is anyone surprised that Verizon has applied for a patent for a device in future TV's that will detect watchers' emotions? If you are watching a movie, you will see an ad for popcorn; if you are getting cozy with someone, you will see an ad for condoms. What would be the ad for two women holding hands? "Buy one pair of shoes and get the second one half off?
When I was thirteen I received a diary for xmas. It had a lock, which I lost. My father made me a new one. It never occurred to me that he could make another lock and open my diary. I wasn't given the gift to be spied on. I was given the diary with the understanding it was mine. Private. I knew my father would not make that lock.
Not everyone keeps a diary but apparently every teen has a FB page. The results for marketers and advertisers are clear. The consequences are pretty scary.
I have not had and never will have a FB account. It is Big Brother. It will sell you to advertisers for it's own profits and it will sell you to the government as well. Join me!
Any takers? Tea party members?
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