Big Brother is watching: Your privacy no longer exists

Big Brother is watching: Your privacy no longer exists If someone told you almost every move you were making was being watched and observed, you’d either think they were crazy or get outraged at the Obama Regime. Almost every move you make is being watched. The people telling you this are not crazy and the Obama Regime has nothing to do with it. Are you alarmed yet? You should be. Is there a greater threat to privacy than government spying on its citizens? Yes, there is. Your privacy, just in case you were not aware of it, is a joke. It no longer exists. But it is not the government that is destroying your privacy it is big business. Big business is literally following almost every move you make. In February, Forbes.Com related the story of an irate father who stormed up to his local Target, incensed that his daughter was receiving coupons from Target for pregnancy related products. The father was at first furious only to discover that his daughter was in fact pregnant. How did Target know? It is through a process called data mining. Do you know why Target and other retailers are so anxious to give you loyalty cards and to get you to sign up for “their” credit card? . It is simple. There is a vast amount of information that can be directly gleaned from your purchases and then can be extrapolated to the rest of your life. In the case of Target, they figured out that if someone bought a certain combination of products, there was an 87% chance a woman was pregnant. Do you have a Gmail account? Why does Google provide all of the goodies that it does to you for free? The answer is, it looks for information in your emails, then keys certain ads to appear. Websites leave cookies in your computer, that will tell them not only that you have been on that website but others you have visited. Cell phones, based on your activities can trace your activities. Credit card companies, based on your purchases can also create very detailed profiles about you as well. Now, the next thing is going to be billboards with face reading technology that can identify you by your face and then put an ad up on a billboard targeted to your specific interests. Now that you know all of this, how much of your personal life would you like in the public domain? The technology involved in this is amazing and frightening at the same time. Companies now know more about you than your family does and possibly even you realize about yourself. The scary part about that is because of this new technology, the idea of privacy is dead. If you think you have privacy today, you are sadly mistaken. What about the Constitution? That is a good question. After all, isn’t there a Constitutional right to privacy? Absolutely and the Constitution does not apply. The Constitution reins in the power of government and stops government abuses. This is not the government. These are corporations. While there are some laws that apply, the constitutional protections that stop government from invading our privacy do not exist for corporations. We are looking at a future without privacy. The real danger here is those who will use the data gathered by corporations to attack private citizens who are willing to stand up for their beliefs. Does anyone really believe that this data is safe and secure. Anyone remember Joe the plumber? When he had his famous moment with Barack Obama in 2008, almost immediately state records about Joe’s private matters were released. How long will it be before a conservative has data about his private life leaked from one or more corporations, just to embarrass them? Big Brother is watching us. Big brother isn’t Uncle Sam either. But rest assured, unless we start figuring out ways to protect our privacy, what little we have left will be gone.