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Big Brother, Big Business (2006)
"The rapid advance of technology allows companies to monitor our every move and record our most private personal information. Driving habits are being recorded; employees are monitored, shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; internet searches are saved and used as evidence in court. It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it is the government that's using it. BIG BROTHER, BIG BUSINESS takes an enlightening and sometimes disturbing look at how the growth of the information society may be eroding the freedoms many people take for granted."
I was pulled by the police in newcastle and was caught with £5's worth of cannabis. After the police asked my name he got out of the front of his car and cuffed me. He asked again my name and asked about a previous arrest in 2000. Apparently when I was pulled over in 2000 and cautioned for cannabis (I never learn!) the police who filed the charge entered 1 wrong digit which resulting in me having the record of an assistant to manslaughter..(i heard it with my own ears thru the police radio .lol hence the cuffs! Then I had to pay £10 admin costs to rectify it.... but a nice bizzy let me off when I explained a while later. I could of been monitered for years..
Electronics and software today can be made into designed to do almost anything, from what you want it to do aw well of what you are not aware of. Privacy is a big issue today when using the Internet, a mobile phone in a private level and cameras in public. Not monitoring the above can be only forced by those who provide you the services only if laws and the constitution that are designed in a way to protect the privacy of citizens. Strict Regulation is crucial on preserving freedoms as well as forcing by law to inform end users of the privacy regulations by providing a transparency. So the only way of partly protecting your privacy is either by NOT using the internet at all, not using a mobile phone and not ever showing up in public places with a curviliance system OR by using all the above and demanding that your constitutional rights are protected by 3rd party providers of any sort, being regularly informed about the modern technologies you use, and being able to decide and reject the use of them. No form of technology is good or bad but the way you use it defines the moral ethics about it which. We ought to protect our privacy and demand it, in order that we want to call our country or community a free society
I know they are watching me, all the more power to them. ;) Their folly is in assuming that they are omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipervasive. Like Icarus and Daedalus, they fly too high, committing the sin of hubris, and have no one to blame as they crash to the earth under the intolerant flames of the sun!
Very enlightening. It's no accident, either, that the government (and the corporations it "regulates") use the composite specter of "crime", "child abuse", and "international terrorism" to promote technological protocols once meant for use on enemy nations. Now, our own domestic population is "the" designated target... Just like the "Pledge Of Allegiance" (and other religious invocations) is simply "obedience training", in disguise !!!
Of couse they are watching YOU ! Be afraid be very afraid.
This makes me scared of the internet. I bet they know that I'm watching this.
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