Technology and privacy for the living and the dead
January 28th 2007 07:39
I watched with great interest today a television programme that as the title of this post suggests was all about how technology is impacting on the lives of ordinary people in terms of privacy. It seems that the more technologically advanced we become the less privacy we're likely to have. I already understand that we're all leaving a trail on the internet. So even my trips to lustyladies and boobaliciousbabes have been tracked and passed onto someone out there. Just as long as they don't pass that information onto my wife then everything should be fine. I really enjoy the fact I can have privacy. I think I have that right to do what I want to do without someone making notes of what I've been looking at on the web what clothes or food I buy, when I buy it, or not have someone needing to know exactly where I am at all times.
The thing that I liked least was the one thing that I have laughed off for years was something that I always thought would come straight from the paranoid conspiracy nutjobs handbook. I'll give them credit for the whole thing about the little thing that they inject into people to keep track off their health history and (even as suggested in the show) to find out exactly where someone is by GPS.
I don't think that's necessary to be tracking people. Especially me. I figure that if you can't find me that's your problem. It either means that I don't want to be found or I may be dead. Sometimes people just "disappear". They're not kidnapped or dead they just want to move along. Now if I were someone like that I'd be pretty miffed that I was found.
Now it's also unfortunate and tragic that alot of people do disappear because they are abducted and murdered or sometimes sold into sex slavery. If that happens to be me (the whole dead thing), I'm not going to care either way if you find me or not. It's a matter for me of "I'm dead! I don't give a stuff what you do with the my carcass if you find it! I'm off to eternity to spend time with some family who I haven't seen in years". In fact I'd ask that even when I'm dead I probably don't want to found then either. Trust me, if you try and contact me through a medium somebody's gonna get an unexpected visit from me one night and I ain't talking no "Casper the friendly ghost" visit either. Think more along the lines of Poltergeist.
The thing that I liked least was the one thing that I have laughed off for years was something that I always thought would come straight from the paranoid conspiracy nutjobs handbook. I'll give them credit for the whole thing about the little thing that they inject into people to keep track off their health history and (even as suggested in the show) to find out exactly where someone is by GPS.
I don't think that's necessary to be tracking people. Especially me. I figure that if you can't find me that's your problem. It either means that I don't want to be found or I may be dead. Sometimes people just "disappear". They're not kidnapped or dead they just want to move along. Now if I were someone like that I'd be pretty miffed that I was found.
Now it's also unfortunate and tragic that alot of people do disappear because they are abducted and murdered or sometimes sold into sex slavery. If that happens to be me (the whole dead thing), I'm not going to care either way if you find me or not. It's a matter for me of "I'm dead! I don't give a stuff what you do with the my carcass if you find it! I'm off to eternity to spend time with some family who I haven't seen in years". In fact I'd ask that even when I'm dead I probably don't want to found then either. Trust me, if you try and contact me through a medium somebody's gonna get an unexpected visit from me one night and I ain't talking no "Casper the friendly ghost" visit either. Think more along the lines of Poltergeist.
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