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briandmyers  ·  4086 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So, I found a pair of sunglasses on the footpath last week ...

Understood. In spite of the creepy factor, I kinda prefer to see this sort of thing, out in the open. A reminder that some 'bot is watching a lot of what we all do in public.





cliffelam  ·  4085 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not really watching you, there is no agency. Your choices (cookies, registering as a user) create database entries or provide the data.

The NSA, now, THEY are watching you. :-)

-XC

humanodon  ·  4085 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd kind of like to know which NSA agent is watching at any one time. You know, since the cat is half out of the bag anyway. That way, I could kind of explain myself a little, or give a heads up, like, "Hey Jeff, I've been drinking a bit and I've been going through some stuff, so things are going to get a little weird."

Or have people not watching everyone . . .

cliffelam  ·  4085 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, at the end of the cold war, the STASI in East Germany employed about 1/3 of the population to spy on the other 2/3, so maybe "shovel ready" was Obama-code for that sort of program?

But I agree that it would be cozier if we knew our watchers.

-XC

thenewgreen  ·  4085 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You could always pull a elahi and just say, "You want to track me? Here you go F.B.I"

Cut out the middle man.

humanodon  ·  4086 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Kind of blurs the lines between public and private, no?

briandmyers  ·  4086 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep - and maybe showcases that what we assume is private is often actually not. That's actually sort of the reason I posted this account.

cliffelam  ·  4085 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you read the TOS and Privacy Policies of the websites you use one of the things you'll find is that... not much is what you'd call private.

-XC

briandmyers  ·  4085 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ain't nobody got time fo' dat! :-)