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If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com)
Muad'Dave writes: Here's an interesting article at The Atlantic about the prevalence of surveillance and the recent uptick in 'deja-vu' moments where devices seemingly hear your conversations and then attempt to market to you. From the article: "One night the previous summer, I’d driven to meet a friend at an art gallery in Hollywood, my first visit to a gallery in years. The next morning, in my inbox, several spam e-mails urged me to invest in art. That was an easy one to figure out: I’d typed the name of the gallery into Google Maps. Another simple one to trace was the stream of invitations to drug and alcohol rehab centers that I’d been getting ever since I’d consulted an online calendar of Los Angeles–area Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Since membership in AA is supposed to be confidential, these emails irked me. Their presumptuous, heart-to-heart tone bugged me too. Was I tired of my misery and hopelessness? Hadn’t I caused my loved ones enough pain? Some of these disconcerting prompts were harder to explain. For example, the appearance on my Facebook page, under the heading “People You May Know,” of a California musician whom I’d bumped into six or seven times at AA meetings in a private home. In accordance with AA custom, he had never told me his last name nor inquired about mine. And as far as I knew, we had just one friend in common, a notably solitary older novelist who avoided computers altogether. I did some research in an online technology forum and learned that by entering my number into his smartphone’s address book (compiling phone lists to use in times of trouble is an AA ritual), the musician had probably triggered the program that placed his full name and photo on my page."
If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy
should read: If You're Not Fear About Your Wisdom, You're Stupid
Stop using Facebook. Erase all your personal shit, as if you can un-fuck yourself. When you give personal info out to the public... the public consists of honest people and liars, this includes social media site employees and the rest of the Earth. Liars flock to those positions of control far more than honest people.
Same goes for Windows 10 Global Spyware Backstab Edition
gtfo.
Un-Jew the planet you will be happier. Carry on.
Privacy is not a fixed thing. There are shades of privacy from something you do alone in a room where no one can hear/see you, to private jokes between friends which can be heard by others but only understood by you and them, to being private in a public space. The last one is the one people have the hardest time understanding - the easiest way for me is an extra in a movie: they're there, you see them, but you're never told who they are, their conversations aren't featured, they are private despite being in a film shown to the public. That state of mind, believing yourself to be part of the background noise of life, allows people to function in their daily lives as private people. So yes, now, like then, people can hear through thin walls but that is just another form of "private in public" and should be respected as private unless it's a matter of law (like a wife being beaten should be reported to the cops but my neighbours poor parenting skills is private despite me hearing it daily).
Can you forgive a convicted child molester who has supposedly paid their debt to society?
No, because sexuality isn't a choice, and as everyone of us who has a penis knows, when we like something, we will chase it to the ends of the earth and do almost anything to get it.
I don't blame pedos for their predicament, since they can't really help it. But that trait is incompatible with civilised society, and any action against it must be effective for their entire lifetime.