The government is watching you
What you spend. Where you eat. Who you call. Where you travel. What you Google. What you give to charity.
Recent reports of government access to records from phone companies, Internet providers and credit card companies raise anew questions of just how much other people can know about you, especially in the age of the Internet and high technology.
They watch from the air, from cameras, from computers. And you help them, volunteering vast amounts of information about yourself in the magnetic stripe on the back of your credit card, the SIM card in your phone, the sites you visit on the Internet.
The government has access to some of it. And might have access to more from the vast corporations that compile it.
Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/13/193487/the-government-is-watching.html#.UbrVPNgvwuc#storylink=cpy
who cares I have nothing to hide what will they see me and my wife arguing? too much adoo about nothing.
they need to watch the coin room,
No kidding. So is Google and Facebook. They are the ones supplying information to the government and any business with the cash to pay for it.
#1, your apathy is understandable in the current environment. At the moment, we have a government that is relatively benign and seems to mean well, whether or not you disagree with their policies around healthcare etc.
Who is to say that ten years from now it will still be that way? Any form of extremist left / right government could use the data for malevolent purposes e.g. identify and eradicate undesired subcultures or threats or whatever. The possibilities are horrifying.
Rob I feel that our system of checks and balances would prevent an extremist left or right government from doing what you fear. But that’s not to say there can be unbridled governmental interference with citizens lives.