Privacy
A few thoughts upon reading about the AOL search query data gaffe…
You know what? I would actually have little problem with the government snooping into my affairs…if they would quit locking people up for things they oughn’t to be locked up for. And my general approach to dealing with the intrusiveness of modern governmental and corporate organizations is chaos overkill, which has two tenets:
1. The more information they have the harder it will be to comprehend it, so always aim for volume. And…
2. Randomize it as much as possible. Lie some of the time and tell the truth at others, make it a habit to behave uncharacteristically every once in a while. Do a google search for the last thing in the world you’re interested in knowing.
Has anybody besides me and the Sgt. ever read the novel Ecotopia?
I have not yet read it, but thanks for the suggestion… I will ASAP!
I am a journalism person so I have massive probs with government snooping, even just for the sake of snooping. Of course they’ve been doing it for ages longer than the Patriot Act has been around. My husband knows the name of the software they used to use to monitor everything, I cannot remember offhand.
Anyways thanks for the book suggestion…
Comment by Tamara — August 13, 2006 @ 10:04 pm