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Friday, July 19, 2013

“Facebook is a Monstrous Surveillance Engine”

If you want to have the possibility of some privacy someday, you’d better join the fight now, because now a bunch of other people are joining the fight. Now is the moment when you can make a difference. If you wait until the day you wish you had some privacy and only then try to do something…well, that day you will be one of a few people doing it and that won’t be enough. You’ve got to help make a critical mass when other people are doing it – and that’s now.

We call Windows 8.1 ‘Windows PRISM Edition’ because it’s designed to require people to send data to Microsoft servers, and of course, Microsoft will hand over any of that data to the US government on request. It puts the users in PRISM.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You have only to watch what pops up on your sidebars being promoted from past google or facebook searches when your reading other sites not associated with either. Sometimes it's things you researched days or weeks ago. Intrusive surveillance.