We’ve lost our right to privacy. The CEOs of Facebook and Google have both said essentially the same thing: The age of privacy has ended. Get over it. Privacy is supposed to be an essential right. Yet Americans who claim they’d defend it to the death cheerfully sacrifice it every day to play Mafia Wars. Or to search for a celebrity. Or to connect with high school classmates they never really liked anyway. Internet companies sell our personal data for profit, often by using cookies on our computers to track our activity. Facebook sold users’ video rental records. Google pulled Americans’ personal information via WiFi when it created Street View. Apple iPhones were tracking and storing their owners’ movements. The government is already using corporate data, sometimes without subpoenas. Corporations have voluntarily allowed the government to use their technology to spy on citizens, included one reported case where the government placed a spy server at an ATT location to track the activities of its subscribers. There’s a lot more that we don’t know. We were taught that a person’ home is his or her castle. But our electronic devices have breached the castle walls, and have placed spies in our living rooms, dens … and bedrooms. Americans, especially conservatives, should be demanding that corporations give us back our privacy rights.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:47:21 +0000
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