[access-uk] Re: National Security Agency gathering loads of personal information.
- From: Jonathan H <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:32:20 +0100
Two quick points here:
1: The opt-out box is not exactly hidden away - it's the only box on this
page:
https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en
Scroll, tick, save, job done. And it's not like there haven't been large
banners right at the top of every google service I sign into, since the
change.
2: To be honest, I am far, FAR more concerned about the invasion of privacy
that is The Taxman.
After all, as I'm not planning to blow anything up or look at any
kiddyporn, I really do doubt that MI5/FBI/whoever is really that interested
in this morning's browsing for rotary encoders and tutorials on the
assembler computer language.
However, The Taxman *has*, by use of violence, the ability to over-ride all
my wishes and demand full details of my activities, both business and
personal, in order that I should act as an unpaid tax collector so that I
may work every day and hand over all earnings until mid-June so that the
government may p*** it away on vanity projects, war, crazy feed-in tariffs
and so on.
Between Google giving me the choice to use or not use a service and opt in
or opt out or policies, and the government giving me no choice in what the
money is steals from me is spent on, I know which is farm far more alarming
to me.
On 15 October 2013 13:04, <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm not shooting the messenger but:
>
> I protest!
>
> It should surely be an opt-in, as some people may not tick the box because
> they have difficulty seeing it. I feel a campaign coming on.
>
>
> Best,
> Clive
>
>
>
>
>
> Clive Lever
> Diversity and Equality Officer
> Kent County Council
>
> Office: 01622 221163
> Email: clive.lever@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Kent County Council
> Room G37
> Sessions House
> Maidstone, Kent.
> ME14 1XQ
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Angel
> Sent: 15 October 2013 12:45
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: National Security Agency gathering loads of
> personal information.
>
> According to Google, their new privacy policy will involve, if we don't
> check the box saying we don't want our picture disseminated and sold to
> third party adds the selling of personal pictures, they shall be. It
> seems, this involves all who socially interact sending personal pictures.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Howard" <colin@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:03 AM
> Subject: [access-uk] National Security Agency gathering loads of personal
> information.
>
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > On Up All Night broadcast Tuesday morning from 01:00-05:00 BBC 5Live,
> > there was an interesting discussion about the United States National
> > Security Agency gathering lots of information about us, via it's
> > snooping operations.
> > It seems this practice is more wide spread than we might believe.
> >
> > I have the item on Dropbox, file properties information and modified
> > download link follow.
> >
> > I intend deleting the file from DropBox on Thursday, 2013/10/24 mid
> > day UK time.
> >
> > From Up all Night 2013 10 15 - NSA collecting masses of ...
> > General Summary
> > 's snooping on private individuals worldwide.mp3 Type of file: Winamp
> > media file Opens with: Winamp Change...
> > Location: C:\Documents and Settings\Colin\My Documents\
> > Size: 3.00 MB (3,151,008 bytes)
> > Size on disk: 3.00 MB (3,153,920 bytes)
> > Created: 15 October 2013, 07:03:50
> > Modified: 15 October 2013, 07:04:04
> > Accessed: 15 October 2013, 08:55:15
> > Attributes: Read-only Hidden Advanced...
> > OK Cancel Apply
> >
> > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7644179/From%20Up%20all%20Night%20
> > 2013%2010%2015%20-%20NSA%20collecting%20masses%20of%20personal%20email
> > %20addresses%20to%20assist%20with%20it%27s%20snooping%20on%20private%2
> > 0individuals%20worldwide.mp3?dl=1
> >
> >
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