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The end of privacy?
treesparrow:
Headline -
Forget Street View, there is a far more subtle - and pervasive - invasion of your private life being carried out - this time through your mobile phone
Quote from article
"People are being told that they are signing up for marketing, when they are being opted into a massive surveillance strategy"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/02/google-privacy-mobile-phone-industry
The toys have been provided and perhaps before you know it the 'playpen' will have been built.
The Spoon:
Similar article (two years later) from ZDNet about smart phones storing (and transmitting) your geographical location
__http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/big-apple-big-google-big-brother/989?tag=nl.e539
--- Quote ---In some ways, all the uproar about Apple saving location data on its iOS device users is old news. Guess what? Big Brother, or Big Google, also collects geo-location information from its mobile, Android-powered devices. It’s like anything else in computing: geo-location can provide great services and resources, but it can also be abused.
Take, for example, a woman who was recently robbed in Texas. Using her stolen iPhone, police officers were able to quickly find not only her stolen phone, but her wedding ring as well. Yea!
On the other hand, say another woman is in an abusive relationship and goes to a friend’s house or to a “safe-house” shelter. Her husband tracks her down using her smartphone and literally drags her back “home.”
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--- Quote ---How about wanting the local cops to know where you’ve been for the last two weeks? Police already have the technology to grab GPS location data from smartphones including latitude, longitude, altitude and time data. They don’t need sophisticated forensics equipment. In Michigan, cops can do it in a roadside traffic stop in a few minutes.
The cops or the jealous ex don’t even need to get their hands on your smartphone or tablet. Both Apple and Google regularly pull down your location data. Apple, it seems, does it twice a day, while Google updates your location several times an hour.
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Article also references a commercially available device which law enforcement agencies are using to extract data from phones:
--- Quote ---The extractors are called UFEDs—Universal Forensic Extraction Devices—which are made and sold to law enforcement by Cellebrite. The data stealer can swipe everything in under two minutes, including text messages, photos, videos, passwords and even GPS data, from over 3,000 different mobile devices. It can even take encrypted data, and no password can hold it back.
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__http://www.businessinsider.com/data-pirates-aka-cops-can-hack-your-cell-phone-2011-4
Nienna:
There's an article on SOTT regarding this.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227570-How-wide-does-this-go-Now-Google-devices-found-to-transmit-user-locations-back-to-the-company-
Al Today:
YUP, there no privacy anymore. I am sure "they" have some big hunking ultra mega supercomputers where our data is stored. And as "they" gather more information their predictive capabilities improve. AND... "they" can most likely zero in a target from outer space orbit. And I'm sure those nasty emfs are being fried tuned to fry our brains to moldable mush. AND.. Who knows if they can really beam into our heads, talk to and persuade us at an unconscious level, or consciously just for "their" needs.?.?.?
ALL IN ALL, Methinks privacy is an illusion that we are allowed to perceive.
Being on a STS controlled planet, I would expect all sorts of :evil: :evil: :evil:
Not so years ago, anyone talking like this would be called crazy.
Darn, where did I put my tin foil hat anyway.?.?.?
mkrnhr:
At the same time their absolutist mindset shows how much they are ignorant of how this universe works. The more you try to control things the more other uncontrollable things become uncontrollable. For them the yin-yang motive is just a funny folkloric drawing.
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