define( 'DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4' ); define( 'DB_COLLATE', 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci' ); 15 August 2007 – Lost Republic

Daily Archives: 15 August 2007

On Privacy

Here’s a great CNBC special on privacy. What I learned:

1) Every digital picture you take is encoded with the camera’s serial number.

2) Every Google search you do is stored and can often be connected to your name. Already, a man’s Google searches have been used against him in court. (He deserved it, but that doesn’t justify the invasion of privacy.)

3) Federal agencies are forbidden from keeping information on private citizens, so contractors do it for them. You’ve never heard of these companies, but they’ve heard all about you.

You can Google search anonymously here or here.

CIA editing Wikipedia

In many ways, the innocuous changes described here are not news. Since tuning in to indy press (InformationClearinghouse, RawStory, PrisonPlanet, HuffingtonPost, WhatReallyHappened), I’ve taken federal tentacles in the media as a given, and have considered the freedom of the internet the current battleground. Nevertheless, here is the CIA with their pants down. Perhaps this is just carelessness, or a rogue employee. It’s a no-brainer for them to simply use non-CIA computers for the real dirty work.