Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Big Brother aspects of evolving technology

My premise here likely is that "Privacy does not exist if you are near (within 10 feet) of any smartphones, most cell phones, in any car made since about the 1990s, in a car with hands free technology, have a land line or cell phone or have an online computer."

So, unless you are someone who has decided not to use cell phones, internet, Cable TV, Land Lines for phones etc. you do NOT have any privacy in your lives. (You remember Osama Bin Laden did not have any of these things and used a thumb drive and couriers to move information.)

But most of us just don't want our business, personal and private information spread all around the world on the internet and most of us are not criminals but law abiding citizens.

So, why have the governments of the world through the companies of the world bugged our phones, cars etc.? There may be terrorists and there may be criminals but does everyone on earth(95% or more law abiding citizens of Earth) have to be enslaved to a complete loss of privacy from here on out?

And even if you live in a third world country without electricity phone lines or even a cell phone, you still can be heard when out in the open through satellite tracking and listening to your conversations from space as well as their capacity to read anything including the date on a dime on the ground from space since the 1970s. How many nude sunbathers of the world who thought that they had privacy in their back yards or out in nature now have pictures or even movies somewhere on someone's wall or computer or smartphone from these satellites? Probably a lot.

Recently I wrote this article because I was installing my smartphone through bluetooth on my new hands free computer system in my truck.
 2011 Hands Free Technology

At the time I was really enjoying that I had access to all this voice actuated technology. But then I realized that if this computer could understand my speech without training that it could also understand any other speech in the car without training at any moment. And this made me ask myself a lot of questions regarding this technology especially after I heard today that there are literal "Black Boxes" now inside most cars and trucks made since the 1990s in the U.S. and around the world. And if you have an accident these onboard computers are accessed. And even if you never knew that these things were there my question to you is: "What are they accessing? And who has access to this information? And is every conversation that was ever made in this car recorded on one level or another? And is anything this onboard computer doing actually accurate in regard to the speed you drive your car every moment, the conversations you have, the location of your car in any given moment? In other words is a car now like a smartphone and relaying information through cell phone and smartphone technology to who knows Who? And are law enforcement the only people who can access this information?

Let me explain a nightmare my God Daughter went through and all this will come into focus for you.

In her early 20s my God Daughter made the mistake of dating a man in his early 30s. Just because he was making over 100,000 dollars a year and managing a really fancy restaurant she assumed he would be okay. But he was not okay. He bought her a cell phone and didn't tell her he was tracking her through the internet every moment of the day and night he wasn't with her through the cell phone her bought for her designed for parents tracking their teenagers even after they broke up because he was just too controlling of her every move and behavior. So then, she assumed she was through with the man in his 30s. But he still kept tracking her and once she began dating someone new he tracked her down and beat her up and then he threatened the new boyfriend. But  the new boyfriend stood up to him and the police were called in. Then the 30s guy started downloading nasty pictures he had taken of her onto everyone's phone that he could. So, people where she worked got downloads of her in pictures he had taken of her unclothed. Though many people now that knew her wanted to kill him because of doing this to her this actually happened and she had to live through all this. Luckily she had a new boyfriend and myself and my wife who protected her in all ways through all this. But imagine if this happened to a young woman and she didn't have any backup. It could easily have been fatal for one or more people. The story I'm telling you here is just the very tip if the iceberg of this problem worldwide. Think about it.

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