Then it was such a pain to turn it on when I needed my map application. Moreover, turning off my location made so many of my phone's capabilities useless.

I hate looking at my phone realizing its an instrument of the government to violate my rights. Now all technology that tries to tie me into Facebook makes me resent the company and the government.

This surveillance is poisonous to our relationship with the government. We need to get rid of it or Democrats, who believe the government does good things, will be the losers.

AND how the internet is being used and controlled.

I realized they could do it should they choose to, but thought they would never want to.

What I didn't realize is that they don't need to pick me, they have my data because they have everyone's data, all of it.

If anyone wants me to sign up for that, screw them.

It's all well and good for Mozilla users to know this, but I use tablets now, and this ios platform seems so much more controlled. And I can't remove the battery! Now my suspicious mind asks if that is on purpose.

their all when they signed up either on Facebook or amazon or for that matter any Hotmail/gmail or any other email account.

And I don't use any cash, therefore, any phone I buy is known the second I give my c/c.

So all of this is just much ado about nothing except to fracture the democratic party just in time for two special senate elections
to swing the status to republican.

WTF?

and I don't know about anyone else, but I always assumed in the last 50 years, that everyone is listening anyhow,
so this is nothing knew.

Of course, here NO ONE in government is actually spying or listening anyhow, but back in the day, people next to me in the park
at a political rally or at a book reading, gathering, whatever one always assumed someone was planted there.

And one kept going on.

Now its out in the open but it always was, and there is nothing revolutionary here.

IMHO.

What right has anyone lost? And is anyone not doing anything because of it? And why?

not to mention, anyone filling out any form whatsoever is known.

I think this all to stop a national gun registry, something that acutally should have been done decades ago.
That is what I think 100% of all the fear in this is. Hyperbole from the NRA and the 2nd amendment people mixing issues in and riling up people who think its about other things.

You should be more frightened of the capabilities you are giving them when one inevitably wins.

Practice makes perfect.

if zim from florida was packing a pack of gum instead of a gun and bullet, Mr. Martin would be alive and well and living in Sanford.

her son's death? To me, it is as if you pick up his murdered body and use it as a sort of rhetorical human shield to protect yourself from having to make a reasoned and respectful response to others.

would be something all would agree on, from Al Sharpton to me and 100% of everyone else, don't you?

To that, one must consider, "Who decides what is a "right"!

It's a first amendment issue.

I think there are two concerns, for sure. One is the privacy issue, along with all the questions of whether or not the laws are constitutional or whether or not they are even being followed. This has always been the case with the 4th Amendment, ever since the country was founded.

The second concern is completely new, and it has to do with the use of metadata. Metadata is used to create the targets for a counterinsurgency operation. Sometimes (or according to research, in most cases) the most influential person in a social network, or insurgency, is not the most high profile, or the most vocal, individual in the group. With very large groups (OWS for example), this new technology identifies those individuals who's participation in the group is the most critical.

That, in a nutshell, is what the metadata is being collected and used for. It should be obvious how this can affect our first amendment freedoms. There are a couple of stories floating around today about how the MIC is targeting opponents of the keystone pipeline. This counterinsurgeny technology is being used against law-abiding citizens right here in America.

Because the algorithms being used are easily handled by computers, and because no errors are introduced by trying to decode or translate any communication content, the system can create a very precise mapping of our social networks. Only actual metadata associated with each communication is logged into the software, and from that the algorithms sort out the social connections.

For some basic info about how the science is implemented, google the keywords: thesis+insurgent+social+network

because people did not properly read the small print we just have to accept it all.

all hail our great leader!

just because you dont want to use cash does not mean others cant attempt to improve their privacy.

all hail our great leader who can do no wrong!

LittleSnitch is OS X only but there must be a Win equivalent? right?

Ghostery?

Cheers,
Agony

However, the web sites of the blockers do tell you which OS they work on.
Usuall yif it works on Linux it will work on Windows, but not always the other way round.
I am pretty fond of Ghostery.

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I turned mine off earlier btw.

What is really annoying is finding those little icons on damn every page I browse..
but Ghostery assures me it is blocking the trackers.

at least thats what it says.
they are placeholder images that replace the actual tracker.

These folks are apparently working on a mobile version though.

Some examples 1) better privacy causes computer to freeze for 15-30 seconds when loading some websites
2) Ghostery blocks pictures of merchandize on Home depot but not for first page.
Also, under FF options, you can tell sites not to track.

I know Ghostery says that it can cause script errors when used with other blockers..

recently have had freezing problems, did not consider it was Better Privacy, which I have been using for a long time now.

Because THAT is what they're aiming for.

The President's Analyst (1967) More at IMDbPro »

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him. Written by Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

Great movie

Thanks

the movie was made as a comedy, in 1967, but today, sounds up to date.....aaaiieeeeee!!!!!

I've been using AdBlock for years. I just installed Ghostery and several sites I visit often now load much faster. There are more than a dozen trackers blocked on each of the sites.

the name that used to be used to describe this behaviour was "shadow profiles", facebook collects or collected a lot of data about you, not just from tracking cookies. i dont know about US law but in the EU there is a attempt to have this dealt with, firstly through Irish law, as that is where the EU HQ of facebook is, and at the moment by challenging this collection with EU data-protection laws.

http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

Thanks, dixiegrrrrl!

I also have AdBlock, AVG Do not Track and AVG SafeSearch.

I'm not tech savvy, so if anyone knows if the above can be improved, please let me know.

I realize there is revenue generated for people, but ummm... my privacy is more important than a revenue scheme.

Have for quite some time.

I have used Ghostery and Adblock for a while and have also added Facebook to my Windows hosts file.

http://cariblogger.com/2010/07/how-to-block-facebook-using-hosts-file/

They are among the many sites I have blocked. If an advertisement irritates me then I add its source to my blacklist.

I don't have any persistent cookies either.

There are no Adobe products installed on my computer -- no Flash, no Reader, nothing.

The rare content I can't view? Well that's the advertisers' and site owners' loss, not mine.

At this instant there are cookies from two sources on my computer: from DU, and from YouTube because I let their videos show through on DU. Cookies all go away when I log off the computer.