“[Facebook’s engineers] can track a user’s every keystroke and mouse click on the site. They can see whose profiles you’re looking at most often, whose photos you’re lingering on. The ways to see into users’ lives are endless. Not only do they know far more about you than you likely realize, but Facebook might even be able to recognize things about yourself that even you have yet to realize.” – Tracy Clark-Flory, writer for Salon.com
I’m sure Google can do the same with blogs. Which ones we follow. Which we comment on. What we comment. Is anything really hidden when it’s on the internet? Our history is there for the powers that be to scrutinize, if they care to… or have the time to.
I wonder if 10 years down the road, we will all realize we really gave up a lot of our private lives to those with power to use it for or against us.
Not that I’m a conspiracy theorist or anything.
I'd say you're pretty sensible. Guess I figure my life is way too ordinary and boring for it to be of any use to the *higher ups*. ;)
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ReplyDeleteI try to be thoughtful regarding what I post but what is a matter of deeper concern is how easily twisted simple statements can become when taken out of context or made to "sound" other than how I meant them. M. Sue
ReplyDeleteThey can, but really, why would they care?
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