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JoeyT

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20. No they can't.

Reply to randome (Reply #18)

Wed Aug 28, 2013, 11:46 AM

Aug 2013

I shred my stuff. Not to prevent spying, but so it can be used for compost.

You can prevent them from digging through your garbage, you can't prevent them forcing every company you do business with to cough up all the information they have on you.

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Here’s How Phone Metadata Can Reveal Your Affairs, Abortions, And Other Secrets - WaPo [View all] WillyT Aug 2013 OP

even if we know what we do in public is "public", we don't want it closely tracked. unblock Aug 2013 #1

Joe Biden AGREES!!! bvar22 Aug 2013 #2

But did not Joe Biden... Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2013 #19

Yeah! Thats the same guy, bvar22 Aug 2013 #21

So can cameras looking at your car travel to those places...The article does have a point... uponit7771 Aug 2013 #3

Not really a meaningful standard. jeff47 Aug 2013 #4

The comparison of phone metadata with "digging through your trash" is absurd. Skinner Aug 2013 #6

The example is not about scale. It's about expectations. jeff47 Aug 2013 #8

Yes, a phone company might share my data in exchange for cash. Skinner Aug 2013 #10

What they get in return isn't legally relevant. jeff47 Aug 2013 #15

What's legally relevant is my reasonable expectation. Skinner Aug 2013 #17

Yes, it does mean that. jeff47 Aug 2013 #22

OK. It seems to me that if we are arguing what the law currently permits... Skinner Aug 2013 #23

I follow you there...it is about expections Supersedeas Aug 2013 #11

You're trying to merge metadata and content. jeff47 Aug 2013 #14

K&R! TeamPooka Aug 2013 #5

K & R BuelahWitch Aug 2013 #7

K&R n/t myrna minx Aug 2013 #9

So I've called planned parenthood treestar Aug 2013 #12

The Abyss. Octafish Aug 2013 #13

K&R Segami Aug 2013 #16

Here is how the FBI COULD be spying on you. randome Aug 2013 #18

No they can't. JoeyT Aug 2013 #20