Big Brother, the Nanny State, and Surveillance

jhaynes's picture

This article raises a salient question
IS technology to Blame in this Big Brother movement or is it humanity itself (or rather the elite)
Security: Is technology saint or sinner?

upnorthkyosa's picture

For some reason, the

For some reason, the hyperlink for the article isn't working...

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

jhaynes's picture

It worked for me but here is

It worked for me but here is another one

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/27/database_state_analyses

"If Fascism ever comes to the United States it will be in the guise of Americanism"
Huey Long

jhaynes's picture

http://www.prisonplanet.com/a

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/061206seedmoney.htm

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/040906Google.htm

I've been looking for a link about Google's new program wherein it is utilizing peoples webcams and microphones to compile a psychological profile to better direct advertising... This is apparently bundeled in the new Apple Laptops so that without the users knowledge they are watching and listening to everything they do and saving that info in a psychological profile.
well I got halfway there....apparently there is a hundred plus page press release from Google detailing this..
So then I went poking around in their press release center and searching for Google webcams and advertising....and the thing shuts down..unable to process my request...hmmmmmmm

well if someone finds it please post it
Thanks

PS
CIA and GOOGLE
Perfect

upnorthkyosa's picture

Sounds like computers are

Sounds like computers are transforming into "telescreens." I never thought I'd become a neo-Luddite, but...

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

jhaynes's picture

Paranoid

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/theluddite/2007/06/lud...

Here is a good comment on Google Street View. You know I don't feel so paranoid anymore...I sure wish I did.

upnorthkyosa's picture

Imagine that, "I'm sorry, we

Imagine that, "I'm sorry, we couldn't find the page you were looking for..."

That's because you have a fucking net profile of me a mile long already motherfuckers!

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

jhaynes's picture

Paranoid Luddite

[first try didn't work]
try that one...hopefully

http://www.wired.com/commentary/theluddite
just look for the title about paranoia

then read this...if it works
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/saleskatz.html
if not here's an excerpt I sick of this BS.

The term "Luddite" is kicked around a fair amount, but few understand who the Luddites were. Members of a radical agrarian movement, they surfaced in Robin Hood country - Sherwood Forest, near Nottinghamshire - for 15 bloody months. The Luddites violently opposed the factories and mills whose construction ushered in the Industrial Revolution. They may or may not have been led by a "Ned Ludd" honored in at least one old Luddite song:

Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood
His feats I but little admire,
I will sing the Atchievements of General Ludd
Now the Hero of Nottinghamshire.

The Luddites were fighting for their way of life in the most literal sense. For centuries, they had lived in small villages in ancient valleys, using simple machines that could be operated by individuals or families.

Big mills and factories meant an end to social custom and community, to personal status and individual freedom. Having worked independently on their own farms, they would be forced to use complex and dangerous machines in noisy, smelly factories for long hours, seven days a week, for slave wages. Their harvest and agricultural rituals, practiced for centuries, would perish. Fathers could no longer be with their wives and children. This new kind of labor changed notions of time and introduced concepts like work schedules and hourly wages. It despoiled whole regions, including Sherwood Forest.

The Industrial Revolution was, of course, much too big a train for these farmers and artisans to throw themselves in front of. Once their insurrection was put down, the Luddites became a footnote to one of the most relentless transformations in human history. Yet the battle was a fierce one because the stakes were so high. We remember it because they still are.

jhaynes's picture

Goo Gol is the Evil Empire!

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/articl...

"Google’s overall goal is to have a record of every e-mail we have ever written, every contact whose details we have recorded, every file we have created, every picture we have taken and saved, every appointment we have made, every website we have visited, every search query we have typed into its home page, every ad we have clicked on, and everything we have bought online. It wants to know and record where we have been and, thanks to our search history of airlines, car-hire firms and MapQuest, where we are going in the future and when."

...And people look at me like im a freak when I say Google is evil and you should never use anything they make!

In fact I'm done using their name cause they probably search for it from now on its back to Goo Gol!

"If Fascism ever comes to the United States it will be in the guise of Americanism"
Huey Long

jhaynes's picture

Goo Gol = EVIL

http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/google_cia_seed_money_launched_googl...

Yeah the CIA...
reread this;
"Google’s overall goal is to have a record of every e-mail we have ever written, every contact whose details we have recorded, every file we have created, every picture we have taken and saved, every appointment we have made, every website we have visited, every search query we have typed into its home page, every ad we have clicked on, and everything we have bought online. It wants to know and record where we have been and, thanks to our search history of airlines, car-hire firms and MapQuest, where we are going in the future and when."

Goo Gol is EVIL

"If Fascism ever comes to the United States it will be in the guise of Americanism"
Huey Long

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