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[Q4u]

It's fascinating to me.... get this, back years ago there was the ability by a very large competing country to be able to read the vibrations of speech in a room on a glass window when an instrument was aimed at the window.  Provided the instrument had a clear line-of-sight to the window.  Apparently if you are in a room talking.... this creates a minute vibration that was able to be "read"..... Can you imagine the improvements made since then?   

[SeaMaiden]

It does not bother me.  My life is an open book...everyone has a piece of me and I have given up on privacy. It does not affect my life one way or the other...and I have nothing to hide anyway. No secrets.

[proudlyfromNJ]

I think most of us know what's going on in the world. Everyone just needs to be aware and do what they feel is necessary. For myself, I will not be getting rid of my phone or putting tape on my tv so it can't see or hear me or not going on toll roads because they now have cashless tolls and my picture gets taken. 

At at this point in my life I made the choice to not spend the rest of  it quaking in my boots. I know many people feel differently as I see it in my own family. 

[shoekitty]

The privacy law that was once enacted to protect consumers in 2012, was revoked in favor of big business in Feb, this year...or maybe it was last Feb?   They can glean anything now.  Thats why the uptick in spam, and invading the cellular phones.  One of the problems is that the new law allows our internet providers to glean, monitor and sell our info.  This is new, so it will get worse.  

[LTT1]

@shoekitty

Now you have me wondering.

I guess I have seen TONS of spam and so it is impossible to get rid of ads and notifications and clean up my email accounts.

It Also is now difficult to find and or “see” the important stuff.

Just this morning I was trying to locate an online order...and I couldn’t even find it in my email!

And So is the change in this consumer law the cause of cell phone sales calls?

[CherryHugs]

I really dislike that when i search things online like shoes or products, the ads on facebook are all what i searched for!

[shoekitty]

Spoiler

@LTT1

Yes, .  It was enacted in 2012, and  dismantled Feb 2017. I think it went into effect late Spring/ early Fall 2017.  It is called the Internet Privacy Act.  Look it up.  It was one of the most stupid things to overturn.  It wasn't voted on, because it wouldn't pass.  It was an over ride from high ups.  The law had protected us from internet providers, cell providers.  Before they had to ask our permission before gathering and sharing our information.  All our info is available to providers, who in turn sell it.  This change of the law also allows internet providers to slow up, or halt out connection to internet at will.  Pretty soon we will be asked to pay for faster service.  If you don't buy it, you go on the slow list.  This gives providers control over repairs, and areas they don't see as as money making.  Rural areas will be hurt, if they already aren't impacted.  The rumor is now the government wants to use tax payer money to build rural areas, and not have the internet and cell providers pay for it partially.  This is one of those "little" laws we took for granted that protected us.  It is to increase business returns.  

you are right.  I can barely see my screen.  I used to use the NAi opt- out tool and it worked well, until I cleared cookies.  Now that does not help.  And forget about the DNC program.  They can only do so much.

Y my blathering, lol!

i am getting a new computer, don't know what I can do to block some of these intruders.  I hate it.  As you all can tell by my blathering! LOL

[ID2]

Eh it doesn't really bother me in the least! If I had a very high powered government job then yes I wouldn't like it, but the silly things I search for online are nonsense stuff. Go ahead and track me I say. 

[Ketra]

@lovestoteach wrote:

I have found some positives surprisingly.
Also there seem to be some negatives.

1) Sometimes I like to be reminded of things I have shopped for
2) Sometimes I feel like my privacy has been invaded

3) my internet searches are enhanced ...a positive
4) offers for insurance are a pain — these appear in my email messages (spam)

@LTT1 No good can come from others being allowed to track you on the internet. Some companies, governments, and people will abuse technology to gain power, wealth, and control over people. Humankind has not evolved enough emotionally, morally, and spiritually to handle the technology it’s created. Technology is already starting to control us instead of the other way around. Cases in point. Google, Facebook, and YouTube have admitted to filtering of customer search data that “they” believe is inappropriate. Google now filters data that we search through so that results are slanted to their morale and political beliefs. Google and others have taken it upon themselves to decide what we have a right to know. I’ve definitely noticed changes in my searches in the past 5 years. Whether your a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian...., this should scare the heck out of you. The internet was designed to house unfiltered data with easy access to anything written, and anything you want to know about. Technology is here to stay, we can’t go back. Cameras, microphones, sensors keeping track of everthing from what you have in the fridge to who comes to visit your house, all to make life easier and more convenient for us. Really? We all have our own opinions on this and they are diverse. My opinion is that I’m enjoying life as much as I can now as there are no guarantees for tomorrow.

[Ketra]

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@sidsmomwrote:

My radio station talked about this recently.

Seems the ‘Alexa’ devices in your home is tracking things

things you talk about, listen to on TV/Radio & then suggesting

items on social media.  

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• @sidsmom.  My SIL has been telling her daughter about Alexa since she purchased it. Also SIL is so afraid of Govt. tracking her, battery comes out of her dumb phone every night, tv's unplugged, etc. etc. And we didn't walk on the moon. Sometimes it's fun to listen to her!
  

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@proudlyfromNJ

That’s a pinch too tinfoil-y for me (!), 

but I just saw this on Twitter recently...funny.

Forget the hat..just cover the whole house. 

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@sidsmom.  Oh, but it's much worse. She is so paranoid that it must take so much energy and time researching that there is no time to be happy and enjoy retirement. 

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@proudlyfromNJ Well, I don’t know which is more ridiculous, a house covered in tin foil or people putting Alexa’s (microphones) and cameras inside their homes that any bad actors can hack. If I wanted to eliminate the last little bit of privacy I have in this world, that’s what I would do.