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In reply to the discussion: Customer Beware: You Are Being Tracked [View all]liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)30. Your every move is trackable
Where and when you buy gas for your car, what restaurants you eat, what web sites you visit.
Big Brother is real, just not like the movie 1984 portrayed - YET!
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that is actually clever -- but doesn't involve collecting personal data or surveilling individuals,
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#8
now that i think about the story, though, it's not really that clever. because if you keep an
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#12
technological means *don't* restore personalization. sam drucker knew everyone -- & everyone
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#45
the complaint is still alienation & depersonalization. your 'social benefit' is laughable. there
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#55
ironic statement in your case. statements that tout store coupons as a benefit of the surveillance
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#57
This is not new. Anyone who uses a supermarket discount, or c/c or EZ pass or cellphone
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#3
blah blah blah 'what, me worry'. quite in character. 'trust our dear leaders, they know best'
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#7
your claim that it's not worth worrying about is i think short-sighted. just because you can
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#6
btw, does that person realize that taking cash out of a bank is monitored by cameras?
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#15
which is why i pay cash. i've never been to disneyland but if i were considering it, their little
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#5
You do realize that if you click on alt-net links, they do the same thing, don't you?
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#13
i assume everything i do online is tracked and logged somewhere. which is why i don't buy
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#16
it is my pursuit of happiness.Like bowling. Books are corporate too. So are internet bloggers.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#17
Do little league games now have body searches? Maybe the bloggers *you* read are corporate.
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#18
Did the WTC get blown up? Did Okla. City get blown up? Did 26 die in a school?
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#21
they did something about hijacks, they did something about buildings in big city
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#39
That is what is great, we can all have our opinions, but guns do kill and don't make things safer
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#47
My memory is going. I meant Dr. Richard Carlson, author of "Don't sweat the small stuff"
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#48
Reminds people to walk around a little on a flight or longer car or train ride
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#53
pun not intended, but I think those ads are Universal, not Disney. (ha ha ha).
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#22
Sounds like a privacy advocacy group needs to do some monkeywrenching on the data...
Earth_First
Jan 2013
#34
Oh dang, we DID shake Goofy's hand and not Snow White's on our trip to
FailureToCommunicate
Jan 2013
#35
Pay CASH for your ticket to Disneyworld. If they ask for your name, tell them you're
MADem
Jan 2013
#42
Here in Denver, RTD (Public transit) just rolled out RFID based bus passes.
backscatter712
Jan 2013
#58
Every time you pick your nose at Disneyland, you are being watched in HD by 12 cameras.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#60