Just because you think you're being watched, that doesn't mean you're paranoid. Not these days. Or at least, not if you use the internet.
Internet browsers (e.g., Internet Explorer; Firefox; Chrome) need to be revamped to allow us a modicum of privacy and to allow what's done in the seclusion of our own homes and on our own computers, to stay in our own homes and on our own computers. Not to be collected as part of a monumental database to be used for whatever nefarious purposes the government/business/hacker has in its convoluted mind.
Or is personal privacy a concept belonging to a bygone era? Go to the website mentioned below and you'll have an inkling of what I'm talking about. . . and make sure to click on About, and then on some of the items in the column on the left.
We already know that the American government is working at making it ever easier to spy on whatever citizen it may even suspect of terrorist tendencies. If such techniques as these (but much more advanced, of course!) provide it with incomplete and misleading results, or if it decides to alter the actual results to support its unfounded suspicions, Heaven help the innocents. And that could be you or me.
Now put that sort of spy technology also into the hands of the best and brightest intellects who are employed by big corporations, or who are going solo in pursuit of power and monstrous bank accounts, and we have a vastly greater number of eyes upon us. Not to mention the occasional insane extremist out there.
Oh, but I forgot! We have more pressing problems to worry about, right? The economy, health care, insurance, etc. . . They are of the utmost importance, yes. Yet without freedom, and privacy, we have nothing.
Let's hope that privacy isn't truly obsolete, and that it isn't too late.
(See: What the Internet Knows About YOU.)
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