….Facebook and Twitter are just too much to resist for officials ..REUTERS reporting an excellent (and obvious?) account of how Twitter and Facebook have been co-opted .. and now, you can update your status and photos for family, friends, and LAW ENFORCEMENT!?
As I wrote before on here, Facebook isn’t free. You may not be paying out of pocket for the use of the service, but it is coming with a very hefty price: Freedom and privacy.
Reuters reporting in detail of internet firms working hand in hand with law enforcement and government around the world.. And this:
"Demands from governments for Internet companies to hand over user information have become routine, according to online privacy researcher and activist Christopher Soghoian, who makes extensive use of freedom-of-information requests in his work. "Every decent-sized U.S. telecoms and Internet company has a team that does nothing but respond to requests for information," Soghoian told Reuters in an interview.
Estimation: 300,000 request (at least) occur every year for information from the free net services.
Some may say: If you’re not going to do anything wrong there is nothing to fear. But fear itself. And a future in which all is monitored heavily, emotions are not expressed freely, and the world is under so much control that you are forced to update your status.. and if you don’t, the chip in your arm will do it for you. Sound incredibly insane? …so did the iPhone, Twitter, and Facebook only a few short years ago..
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