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In Reply to: Online privacy Q, please. posted by JimK on February 29, 2012 at 10:31:46:
- Business and social uses these days require a personal computer and internet. You can't get around it.
- The world (especially the US) has become increasingly paranoid, such that everybody "watches" everybody all the time in increasingly sneaky fashion. There are recording street cams and web cams everywhere.
- Huge data bases are being kept by business and government for any possible use you can think of.
The paper trail is just as bad. You still have to pay bills, pay taxes, get prescriptions, drive your car, etc., so your privacy was done away with long before the internet came along.
I agree with Whitmore -- just watch your back and let go of the illusion. There is no "off the grid" in America.
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Follow Ups
- Three intersecting trends make that impossible. - free.ranger 12:55:51 02/29/12 (2)
- (sigh) You're probably right. - JimK 06:32:05 03/01/12 (1)
- The absolutely worst thing you can do --let it all make you paranoid. - free.ranger 09:38:47 03/01/12 (0)