Big Brother

In this time of cameras, social networking, etc, plans are afoot to invade your privacy even more. Is it worth losing all your rights to privacy, just to feel 'safe'.

Yes, the only people bothered by this are those upto no good.

It's like ID cards....they were a great idea, unless you were dodgy.

If I was running the country everyone would be microchipped like dogs.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Yes, the only people bothered by this are those upto no good.

It's like ID cards....they were a great idea, unless you were dodgy.

If I was running the country everyone would be microchipped like dogs.

Nat, it doesn't worry you that you are becoming more like a number than an individual ? I'm not one of these people who fight every single change, but putting your life on view for everyone and anyone to look at, and possibly determine your future, isn't the way to go. Passing all that information on, doesn't make you safe, it makes you vulnerable to even more crime, especially in this age when we all live our lives through the media and electronics.We are already tracked through loads of unnoticed ways, including 'smart' meters for gas, details logged and managed through our cars, banks, etc.

gloswhite wrote:

Nat, it doesn't worry you that you are becoming more like a number than an individual ? I'm not one of these people who fight every single change, but putting your life on view for everyone and anyone to look at, and possibly determine your future, isn't the way to go. Passing all that information on, doesn't make you safe, it makes you vulnerable to even more crime, especially in this age when we all live our lives through the media and electronics.We are already tracked through loads of unnoticed ways, including 'smart' meters for gas, details logged and managed through our cars, banks, etc.

It doesn't worry me at all. The government aren't bothered how often you look at porn, or how much you spend on chocolate muffins at Asda or how much gas you use. They're trying to tackle crime and terrorism, if you keep your nose clean it won't affect your life at all.

ID cards would have been a big step forward.

I agree about the ID cards, but there is information available to everyone, which needn't be. The internet is both good and bad. It stops most governments from manipulating information, but there again it allows others to do so, which includes not only financial meddling, but also personal searches. An example being that if you posted a photo on the web/FB, your location can be pinpointed. This happened to a lady in America, where her address was pulled out of the metadata, she was found, and murdered. Why was that information there? Did you know that any information you shared with someone on FB is automatically mined by FB, who can then look at all your contacts and friends data, and use it as they wish ? The government are right to look at ways of capturing information through the internet, etc, for specific targets, but making us all targets to start with is not a good move, and the search algorithms will throw up information about us that not even we knew ! I'm not paranoid, but the wholesale hoovering up, and selling, using, etc, has to be stopped. (just my view )