Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Privacy For Sale
Only $110.

John at Americablog has a frightening post about how easy it is to buy access to anyone's phone records.
Again, I quote the Sun-Times:
To test the service, the FBI paid Locatecell.com $160 to buy the records for an agent's cell phone and received the list within three hours, the police bulletin said.

Truly frightening.

Written at 5:26 AM by Lynne.
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1 Comments:
Blogger Greyhair said...
I think we've reached the time where you can assume that nothing you do in any public arena is private. Perhaps when you are in your home, just sitting, that's private. But if you use any electronics and/or do anything outside your home, you're being watched. Just assume it.

I hate it. I can't seem to stop it. There's never been a technology developed yet that hasn't been used. I suspect the ability to gather data and database will just technologically march right along as well. Like the frog in the boiling water story, lose of liberty happens very very slowly allowing everyone to adapt to it's incursion. It we old foggies who have the perspective. But you know what happens when old foggies try to cry the alarm.
9:20 AM  
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