I guess most have seen the news on wide state sponsored surveillance of just about anything they can grab their hands on and the commercial counterpart on similar data for advertising purposes. But also the ignorance many ordinary people has on these issues. Now the common thought or story on this issue tend to be that someone of higher authority does this surveillance you.
But perhaps the missing part is that it's the people around you that writes or photograph. And often makes unsubstantiated claims or misinterpretations and propagate the said mangled information. Resulting in a flawed social control on computer steroids to boost it and this results perhaps in a more stronger life impact?
(This communication of content cesspool of course takes places using insecure means of communication, compromised sites, poor privacy settings etc. Enabling said authorities to listen in.)
This means that even if you protect yourself from direct insight from others. It leaks through the social peers (voluntarily or not). Such that the most important may actually be to.. Protect yourself from other less sharp citizens rather than a more abstract big brother?
Edit: some grammar
10 Oct 2013, 5:02 pm
