Threats to your Digital Rights: “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING … : How Wired Gadgets Encroach on Privacy”
You think it only happens in the movies or in science fiction novels? Nope, its happening now or at least the possibilities of what the state especially authoritarian state can do is already there. Yes, the technologies are already in place.
This is what Christian Stöcker says in his article: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOUR BLACKBERRY How Wired Gadgets Encroach on Privacy in Spiegel Online International
“With every high-tech gadget we buy, we give up a little more privacy. Many devices today are in constant communication with their manufacturer. And it’s not just consumers who are losing their rights — the technology gives authoritarian states whole new ways of keeping tabs on individuals.”
So in exchange of convenience, being up to date with technology, being “connected” or simply having the “GAS” (gadget aquisition syndrome), you have to give up something in return: your privacy and control of your life.
Read more about it in: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,637640,00.html
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