Your expectation is a false one.
Remember- the internet is a loosely coupled collection of government and corporate zones of control. You pay a private entity that provides you access and in return gives you a traceable number, where they record all your activity. These private corporations are possibly liable for your activities.
You frequent sites that generally have a terms of use that says your activity will be monitored. Every file you touch is associated with your ip address - and is thus traceable back to you - both on the website’s logs, and on your isp’s logs.
Cookies are planted on your computer to track what sites you frequent - third parties provide weather, desktop searching, screensavers and other tools that covertly analyze your computer use and directs advertisers to your likes and dislikes so that they can more accurately target you with ads.
In short - you can expect privacy all you want. It doesn’t exist on the internet. Your ISP is already required to monitor you and keeps logs X number on behalf of the government or any person who wants to serve them with a subpeona. Just as you shouldn’t expect privacy when selling drugs on a street corner or murdering someone in full view of a survellliance camera, you shouldn’t expect privacy when you are stealing, hacking, distributing child pornography or download music on the internet.
Welcome to the real world.
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“Your ISP is already required to monitor you and keeps logs X number on behalf of the government or any person who wants to serve them with a subpeona.”
There is no law that requires ISPs to keep logs for any certain length of time. They are only required to monitor a specific user after they are served with a subpoena, as is required of the phone companies under wiretap laws.
Most ISPs keep logs for maintenance purposes and dump the logs periodically. It used to be they would keep the data for about a month, I don’t know what it is now.
High level packet encryption onion routing software can be downloaded, configured and installed by total morons in under 15 minutes. All it takes is a few million morons to join I2P and the RIAA, Chinese Communists and Iranian Mullahacracy's thought police are out of business.You pay a private entity that provides you access and in return gives you a traceable number, - correct
where they record all your activity. These private corporations are possibly liable for your activities. -incorrect.
You frequent sites that generally have a terms of use that says your activity will be monitored. - correct.
Every file you touch is associated with your ip address - and is thus traceable back to you - both on the website’s logs, and on your isp’s logs. - incorrect.
Cookies are planted on your computer to track what sites you frequent - third parties provide weather, desktop searching, screensavers and other tools that covertly analyze your computer use and directs advertisers to your likes and dislikes so that they can more accurately target you with ads. - incorrect.
The best way to help underground Christians in China and to support the resistance in Iran and Russia is to install I2P or TOR. The only way Chinese dissidents can safely communicate over digital networks at the moment is through high level I2P networks.
Re: Internet privacy.
I noticed that a couple of photos on my photobucket album were unilaterally removed today by an unknown entity.
The photos were all variations of the shopped images of the mohammed cartoon with the explosive device under his muslim headgear, including the one that depicted obama’s head and the image on urinals.
I thought it was a curious development.