Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Do I have ANY Privacy?
The thought of my every move being tracked down and given out to third parties "if neccessary" is quite frigtening. I never paid much attention to the fact that many of our new technological devices have GPS tracking devices or other computerized systems that allow the company to be informed of basically your every move. This is not news to me, but what was are all the little things that are planted with these surveliance devices that i and most people use everyday. For example, when i make a call from the new nextel fone , NEXTEL Co. knows who i am speaking to and where i am speaking to them from.
If i was lost in my car and a company like Onstar could find me instantly, i would love it. If the person on the other end of the phone was threating to kill me and NEXTEL could save it, amazing! However, if the people behind the magic of TIVO are aware of everything i am recording, MIND YOUR BUISNESS! I just think this is getting out of hand!
"No one is suggesting that TiVo tracks what each subscriber records and
replays. But could they, if they needed to? That's unclear, although TiVo does
have a privacy policy. "Your privacy," it says in part, "is very important to
us. Due to factors beyond our control, however, we cannot fully ensure that your
user information will not be disclosed to third parties." "
If i was lost in my car and a company like Onstar could find me instantly, i would love it. If the person on the other end of the phone was threating to kill me and NEXTEL could save it, amazing! However, if the people behind the magic of TIVO are aware of everything i am recording, MIND YOUR BUISNESS! I just think this is getting out of hand!
"We cannot even begin to control the growing army of businesses and
industries that monitor what we buy, what we watch on television, where we
drive, the debts we pay or fail to pay, our marriages and divorces, our
litigations, our health and tax records and all else that may or may not yet
exist on some computer tape, if we don't fully understand everything we're
signing up for when we avail ourselves of one of these services."
