Every time you requet a URL and visit a website a record of your visit is kept by your ISP.
This is only as private as it takes someone who knows what they are doing to hack it or for the IPS to give it up.
Is anyone surprised at this? You shouldn’t be.
Now thay are putting smart meters on your house so they do not have to send oput the meter reader. Theycan tell when you go on vacation or when you are using the air conditioner. You are photographed everywhere you go by speed camera’s Traffic light Camera’s, security camera’s, Your cell phone can be tracked, your automobile can be tracked,with it’s onboard phone, If you have a wreck the on board system notifies the police while you sit there with the air bag in your face.Your conversations can be listened to while you drive down the road.
Privacy? Maybe in your bedroom if you keep the curtains drawn, put the phone and TV in another room and are quiet.
>>>Every time you requet a URL and visit a website a record of your visit is kept by your ISP.
This is only as private as it takes someone who knows what they are doing to hack it or for the IPS to give it up.
Is anyone surprised at this? You shouldn’t be.<<<
I’m not. My assumption is that everything that I do on the Internet, including this post, is being done in public. This post, like everything else I do, is the ethically equivalent to standing in the street and talking to someone, and if another person is close by, they can overhear me... except this technology allows anyone to be close by me, and I don’t get to see them. On the other hand, there is a rough equivalence in that I can get to stand by anyone else I want, too, and remain unseen.
So I don’t expect privacy online. Nowhere. And I make sure that whatever I do online is something that I can defend in court, at work, or to my wife, since I understanding that it’s in public - like taking a pretty girl to a restaurant and having a neighbor see me, or being stinking drunk on Saturday and someone telling my boss on Monday.
However... there’s that little bit about “being secure in your person and papers,” if I recall my Fourth Amendment well. That’s the legal frontier we’re looking at here. What’s the limit of state intrusion? Sadly, since I agree with Mark Levin that we’re already in a post-Constitutional republic, my fear is that there is no limit. How that will wash out is anyone’s guess, but the guesses are often scary as hell. My personal guess is that at some point we’ll have virtual avatars guarding our cybernetic (cute old word) selves against intrusion and attack, the same way I have that old shotgun propped up behind the door. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.