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In reply to the discussion: AHA! Why privacy is important. I finally got it. [View all]HappyMe
(20,277 posts)13. This is exactly right.
Any clown with a smart phone can take your picture or a video of a completely innocent situation, slap it on YouTube or anywhere - and BOOM the shit hits the fan.
I believe there have been articles posted here where people have had lives ruined by FB. Recently someone filmed some guys talking about their sex lives. That was on YouTube and it went viral and was on national news.
Frankly I distrust fellow citizens with their phones and the need to go viral.
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That's not quite the same. I use the word "you" as it applies to millions, not a few.
Gregorian
Jun 2013
#12
true. also, what an individual can collect VS everything the government can collect differ
alc
Jun 2013
#14
Exactly. This is why the three-letter agencies desperately need to be leashed! n/t
backscatter712
Jun 2013
#24
You got it. The guy with the cell phone taking pictures of the beach that you happen
Cleita
Jun 2013
#33
The Constitution is still the means that we have, but no one in power seems to think we
Cleita
Jun 2013
#38
By the time you care, it will way too late to do anything about it, if we ever hear about it at all
TheKentuckian
Jun 2013
#50