Obama Defends Surveillance Programs as Legal and Limited

[freshwest]

85. It will be resolved, but the corporations that have had our data for years have no oversight.

The loss of privacy is part of the desire for social networking, and it's a fine one.

We tend to forget how much information we give to get online service, for example. It's enough that improperly used, it's perfect for identity theft. The point of entry into the web of text or voice communication and more so video connections, starts with us.

Good laws have to be put in place, wrong laws have already been passed. They must be repealed by the people who wrote them. But there will always be a danger to privacy.

We can't control what many corporations do with our personal data when they send our medical, credit and other records overseas to be handled in other countries that have no laws regarding our data. It's just a job for them there, they have no idea what our expectations are about that data.

It's out of our hands. It should not be so sloppy. Sometimes that's where scamming and abuse takes place, in unknown hands. We give up a lot to get into these systems.

I see no way back from this, just agitation to get protections that only exist as long as there is funding for enforcement. The machines don't care and neither do the companies. They sell our information because they are in it for the money and it's worth a few dimes to someone to get it.

Unless we're willing to give the freedom we have had with our technology, and we won't, this will always be a problem. Keep on agitating the government, but don't forget that the greater loss of privacy and data is corporate.