N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images - NYT

[Savannahmann]

105. Bingo

Soapbox was unconcerned about the NSA, but absolutely apoplectic about the Corporations. So I asked him a couple questions about it. Before I go after the Corporations, or should I adjust that to read before I become fixated on the corporations, I am going to continue the fight to get the Government out of my daily business. When I start to win that battle, I'll shift a tad of my attention to Google and start blasting them more frequently. But the NSA is Google times a million as far as gathering information on me.

For example, with the GPS chip in my phone, federally mandated I might add, the NSA could tell where I'd been, and what stores I just returned from. They can access my bank card and determine what I purchased. They know who I called, and what texts I sent, and where I sent them from.

Google doesn't know squat about any of that. Now, PetsMart know I bought some cat food, but that's about all they know about me. They could sell that information to Walmart and I'd get fliers about cheap cat food as a worst case scenario. Or they could sell it to Google and assuming that they could match me to the customer, I'd get cat food pop up ads on the webpages I visit. Worst Case scenario right there.

So which is more intrusive? Which is the one that is a violation of the 4th Amendment? Google might be able to tell what kind of videos I like on You Tube (Police Brutality videos are the most often viewed). But what can they do besides show me links to more police brutality videos? I am not going to buy a Buick because they are the sponsored advertisement on the page.

Want to have fun with the corporations? Here you go. When you go to bed, leave the webpage up on Audi, Mercedes, or some other luxury car company, like Porsche. Then all the advertisements you see will be Porsche, or Audi etc. It cost those companies money, and unless you are far more wealthy than I, the odds of you buying one of those cars is pretty slim. Try it sometime, and smile knowing that Ferrari is paying a lot of money to get on the webpages you visit.