[clug] Personal paranoia

[Adrian Blake]

Perhaps we can revive the postal service with hand written letters.

Adrian
On 23 Mar 2015 09:05, "George at Clug" <Clug at goproject.info> wrote:

>      Brian,
>
> I appreciate your posting.  I apologise if people were troubled by
> it.
>
> I may have been the person who started the "personal internet
> security" thread, if not, at times I certainly have contributed to it.
>
> My concern is that for some time the Internet has been a fun place we
> can share information and ideas with a wider group of people than our
> own small communities, it has been great thing for people who live
> isolated by geography or by physical limitations,but now things are
> changing.
>
> Where once we could be relative anonymous, now there are groups who
> will be able to identify us and know more about ourselves than even we
> do, and to make matter worse, they may get the wrong idea about us,
> they may gather a false understanding, and then use this to judge us.
> Has anyone every had issues with a credit company deciding you are a
> risk because you once forgot to pay a bill, or the worse case
> scenario, someone abused your identity? Fortuately this has never
> happened to me personally, but it does happened to people form time to
> time.
>
> My concern is about what will people do with technology.  It is not
> just hiding from a terrorist group or a rogue government. How about a
> wife and children are relocated and given a new home away from a
> violent father, a criminal person trying to start a new life, someone
> trying to get a way from a stalker.  There was once a time some of
> this was possible, now it will be increasingly difficult.
>
> I am not even sure that I want a shop window to recognise me, look up
> my purchases and start displaying items that I previously bought for
> people who are with me to see my purchasing habits (I buy way too much
> cheap-brand chocolate).
>
> I realise that if I use Microsoft Windows, if I use Google search
> engine, then my personal privacy will be decreased.  I do not use
> Facebook because it was a given that using such applications decreases
> your privacy. I was able to control that by choosing not to use
> Facebook.
>
> Soon I will have to stop using Microsoft Windows, so will Linux
> provide me the privacy I once enjoyed.
>
> You may all laugh at this, but the first time it really hit me was
> when I was was trailing Windows 8.1 and it grabbed all my photos and
> started to display them on my unattended computer (a screen saver like
> action I think), but I did not want all my photos displayed to every
> one to see, and I had not asked it. The OS thought it knew better. And
> I believe Windows 10 will take this all a step further.
>
> So here I am just asking where will all this face recognition, cloud
> storage of private and personal information, massive live databases of
> our data going to go. Up to know the community and technical
> limitations has placed safeguards on the government, but now they want
> to remove the safeguards,  and the big corporations, criminal
> element, terrorist groups do not care about safeguards.
>
> Can Linux be operating system that can provide people with an
> alternative means of communications with a reasonable level of privacy
> ?
>
> I guess it is too late but the community in general needs to open
> there eyes and see what is happening. Whether they can stop this or
> not, who knows.
>
>
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com.au/advertisers-using-facial-recognition-technology-2013-5?op=1#carnegie-mellons-science-lab-created-a-toy-drone-outfitted-with-facial-recognition-software-so-advanced-that-it-can-identify-a-face-from-a-far-distance-the-labs-research-is-expected-to-take-surveillance-to-a-whole-other-level-1
>
> https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/21/facial-recognition-coming-soon-to-a-shopping-mall-near-you/
>
> http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444897304578044322254166986
>
>
> http://techland.time.com/2011/12/12/face-recognition-technology-comes-to-malls-and-nightclubs/
>
>
> http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-walmart-write-rules-facial-recognition/245707/
>
> Facebook, Walmart, and other companies planning to use
> facial-recognition scans for security or tailored sales pitches will
> help write rules for how images and online profiles can be used.
>
> The U.S. Department of Commerce will start meeting with industry and
> privacy advocates in February to draft a voluntary code of conduct for
> using facial recognition products, according to a public notice. The
> draft will ready by June.
>
>
>
>
>
> At Monday, 23-03-2015 on 00:20 Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
>
>
> {In a new online threat to American military personnel, the Islamic
> State has called on its members and sympathizers in the United States
> to
> kill 100 service members whose names, photos and purported addresses
> it
> posted on a website.
>
> The group said that the personnel had participated in efforts to
> defeat
> it in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere.
>
> Defense Department and F.B.I. officials said that they were aware of
> the
> website and were investigating the posting.
>
> It does not appear that the information had been hacked from
> government
> servers. One Defense Department official, who was not authorized to
> speak publicly, said that most of the information could be found in
> public records, residential address search sites and social media.
>
> The officials said the list appears to be drawn from personnel who
> have
> appeared in news articles about airstrikes on the militant group.}
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/world/middleeast/isis-urges-sympathizers-to-kill-us-service-members-it-identifies-on-website.html
>
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