I was surprised when I read 10 Ways You’re Being Tracked and How to Stop It. I already knew our phone calls and email weren’t secure, and that surveillance cameras might show where we were at a given time, but I never dreamed that color laser printers stamp almost invisible codes on every piece of paper they print. The code contains the date, time, and serial number of the printer. Apparently scientists at Purdue are working on expanding the technology to ink jet printers. Who would have guessed?
I wonder what else is going on that we are unaware of?
November 23, 2014
http://www.globalresearch.ca/big-brother-is-watching-you-beyond-orwells-worst-nightmare/5367023
Yep.
we have a sign published in our public library. telling us that every book we take out will be a matter of personal records kept.
just a warning.
a warning? about the books we read?
i doubt it can all be blamed on bush. but that administration opened a floodgate and set a dangerous precedent. all in the name of “the war on terrorism.”
i suppose it might only have been a matter of time anyway … as technology advanced.
and now technology has taken over where politics started.
no turning back. our life is not our own. we only think it is.
i once googled my name just to see what would come up.
a sex offender living in florida!!! OH GOOD GRIEF!
I know our librarian was upset with the Patriot Act, but at least the libraries are allowed to warn their patrons. A lot of times the warning is forbidden too.
tracking gone mad…
of course it might be useful in certain situations…
obviously we can’t stop now what is in play, because as soon as we change whatever/gadget – it too will be taken over by “trackers”
I must say, I’ve given up worrying about it. I think our own risks are very small.
agree Jean, if we worried endlessly about it all – we would get ulcers trying to keep ahead…
I daresay any number of organisations are secretly recording personal details about me, but as long as I don’t know about it and it makes no difference to my everyday life, I don’t really care. I have more important things to worry about, like whether we’re running out of bread. Or whether my umbrella will be wrecked by the gale-force wind.
I agree, as long as they don’t bother me, I don’t really care. I am amazed at how much the world is changing.