Technology and your Privacy and Freedom.

[Michael Hardner]

No exactly. The bathwater is still good. Many people do not understand alot of this new technology and can easily be taken advantage of, by ciminals, and your own government. Technology is changing, and so are our laws governing its use. One should be aware of what they are getting into. Read the policies ect.

If any of you people have installed software, a game or office suite, you were to be sure to read the entire End User License Agreement{EULA). Right? huh.gif rolleyes.gif

As was pointed out, your private information may be provided to the US government based on whether or not they do business in the US. This has nothing to do with technology - it could have been done in the days of paper files.

But phone surveillance and internet surveillance seems to get more attention. I don't like the bulk disclosure of financial records - it's too easy for the government to lose the information, or send it to the wrong people. But I still think letting CSIS and anti-terrorism teams have access to call records and ISP records in order to generate leads is a very good idea that makes us more secure, and doesn't affect the average Canadian in the least.

[GostHacked]

No exactly. The bathwater is still good. Many people do not understand alot of this new technology and can easily be taken advantage of, by ciminals, and your own government. Technology is changing, and so are our laws governing its use. One should be aware of what they are getting into. Read the policies ect.

If any of you people have installed software, a game or office suite, you were to be sure to read the entire End User License Agreement{EULA). Right? huh.gif rolleyes.gif

As was pointed out, your private information may be provided to the US government based on whether or not they do business in the US. This has nothing to do with technology - it could have been done in the days of paper files.

But phone surveillance and internet surveillance seems to get more attention. I don't like the bulk disclosure of financial records - it's too easy for the government to lose the information, or send it to the wrong people. But I still think letting CSIS and anti-terrorism teams have access to call records and ISP records in order to generate leads is a very good idea that makes us more secure, and doesn't affect the average Canadian in the least.

But with the mantra now of 'more of a threat from homegrown terrorists than foreign terrorists' you are an average Canadian, and well, are being investigated.

Paper was slow, the Internet makes all this information easily and readily available by anyone. Paper trails can run dry, everything digital is traced and tracked by something.

[Michael Hardner]

But with the mantra now of 'more of a threat from homegrown terrorists than foreign terrorists' you are an average Canadian, and well, are being investigated.

What exactly this 'investigation' consists of is anyone's guess. But my guess is that it's a database query that somebody runs to determine who is/isn't visiting certain websites. I guess you could say I, and every canadian is being 'investigated' for that few seconds it takes for the computer to return the results, but that would be a stretch and the effect on me is zero, as stated.

Paper was slow, the Internet makes all this information easily and readily available by anyone. Paper trails can run dry, everything digital is traced and tracked by something.

My take is that it's not as sexy a news story, and doesn't fit in easily with the 'Big Brother' mantra...