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Comment on New Google Galaxy Nexus Face Scan Technology Part Of Wider Privacy Attack by al_clark7

al_clark7 — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:33:55 +0000

Hi, I appreciate the time it maust have taken for you to reply.

I am glad to have triggered some type of discussion.

I simply want to warn people how their privacy is being attacked by stealth. If more people realised how Google and Facebook violate privacy and how they make it hard to opt out of information sharing, then we would be in a far better position as a society.

Also, the face scan technology is a pre-cursor to having to face scan to actually gain access to the internet. It is planned that we will have an individual online account where we have to scan to get online, no matter where we want to access the internet and, as you might be able to imagine, people who say things that the state does not approve will be banned from getting online. This has wide ranging implications for personal freedom.

I am not suggesting a boycott of technology, I am simply pointing out the dangers of this technology being mis-used.

Which it is already, as you stated.

You sound to me like you do not value your privacy and this, I fear, will be the views of most people.

You state “the truth is out there and we who sin every day should strive to curve those sins and fight with our spirit instead of finding ways to create or evade laws to help us hide ourselves or our ill doings.”

This is dangerous thinking, along the lines of “if you have done nothing wrong, what are you trying to hide?”

People who value privacy are not sinners as you insinuate, they are merely educated on what happens when we give up those liberties which are at the heart of a healthy society.

Thanks for your message and think about the information you give away freely that corporations then profit from and manipulate you with.

Then go and change your privacy settings on your Facebook account.

Comment on New Google Galaxy Nexus Face Scan Technology Part Of Wider Privacy Attack by CarlosV

CarlosV — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:39:21 +0000

Hmmm. these are not new arguments or concerns since history began things have evolved towards this direction. Think back 500 years and while there was no Internet or phones or digital or any other type of cameras there were always people with eyes and mouths. People who could be persuaded to reveal your whereabouts, to draw a picture of you and why not? Even invent a story of you to the tax collectors, or any authorities of the times.
Are we to avoid the natural evolution of technology or should we rather exercise human control of our negative emotions? It is not a life too amusing to live in fear of what our neighbor or the government might, will or is doing?
I am not condoning it but is it not more worthwhile a discussion to do or rather attempt at all times to do that which religion tells us. Think good thoughts do good deeds… in the end whether it is God, or Big Brother, the truth is out there and we who sin every day should strive to curve those sins and fight with our spirit instead of finding ways to create or evade laws to help us hide ourselves or our ill doings. We cannot hide from ourselves nor should we strive to.
When the time comes and all is recorded, no-one not even the law makers or the law breakers are exempt.
It is not fair to be arrested on a suspicion you might protest a royal wedding, but if it is so, how is this different than being denied a mortgage based on a credit standing? Having bad credit does not make you a bad person and protesting is a right which does not make you a bad citizen but trying to stop technology is a futile, worthless, fantasy that will only lead to a larger prison, that of ignorance.
The example of the person being arrested is the misuse of technology not technology itself. But we as humans are known for misusing everything even ourselves.
We live in an imperfect world and trying to create an all-encompassing law, or to appeal to the negative emotions of fear is just as fearful as those things which we think we should protect ourselves against. We have no control. We can only live with the reward of living with integrity with courage and with the will to call out the injustices and take each step with strength and true enlightened purpose.

Comment on Why Do People Think That Mind Control Is Make Believe? by al_clark7

al_clark7 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:23:51 +0000

Thanks for the comment.

And I would say that the “financial crisis” is being pushed in exactly the the same way.

EVERY time there is an opportunity to hype fear, the government will jump on it and maximise it.

The hegelian principle of problem/reaction/solution is at work here.

The government work us into a frenzy about the financial circumstance, then they wait on the reaction, and finally, after creating the problem they will offer the solution. Which ususally involves pushing through policy that we would have normally refused.

Thanks

Comment on Why Do People Think That Mind Control Is Make Believe? by Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:33:14 +0000

Interesing thoughts. It got me wondering if the ‘financial crisis’ is being used to drive the UK government’s agenda in a similar way?! Today we see national strikes in the UK, unprecendented for a generation, in protest against the government’s plan to make drastic changes to public sector worker’s pensions. For a few years now, we have been constantly told that the deficit needs slashed and how bad the economy is (which i don’t doubt) at every opportunity. I wonder if the government are taking advantage of this and even overinflating this ‘crisis’ to allow them to push through such reforms…