“Quite often,” observes Lawson, “if you go in and actually read what you’re clicking ‘I agree’ to, it says ‘I agree to let you track my activities online and use that information for whatever you want.’”
Holy cow. I really should start actually reading those agreement things...oh dear. This article makes the government, or the "Internet Police State," sound a lot like the secret police or Gestapo of Nazi Germany. Okay, so maybe not a LOT like them, but enough to bring them to mind. Though we in America may fall victim to this Internet Police State and find that our every action is being watched and recorded, it's not half as bad as those perhaps in China.
Whatever the case, I don't know what this nation is coming to. I'm not even that surprised that our every move is being watched, but at the same time, it does make me a little nervous. And I don't want to become the over paranoid described in this article.
Ironically, the internet once promised a veritable democratic revolution of wide open communication. If current trends continue, we could well end up paranoid and close mouthed, afraid that everything we do will be recorded, forever available for use against us at at any time, in any way.
It seems that America is become less of a nation defined by its people, and more of a nation defined by its regulations.
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Reminds of the movie Enemy of the State.
To think that the amount of technology dedicated for 'national security' could easily be used to infringe upon the rights of citizens.
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