EU: Don’t use Facebook if you want to keep the NSA away from your data

Damn, I hope ACF50 isn't something that can be used in bombs in some way as yesterday I posted I thought it was one of the best smells in the world.
 
Skidder said:
I don't think the NSA are interested in any of my data. If they want to bore themselves senseless, that is there look out.
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maybe one of your exs or someone else is
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/nsa-snooping/
The National Security Agency's internal watchdog detailed a dozen instances in the past decade in which its employees intentionally misused the agency's surveillance power, in some cases to snoop on their love interests.
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maybe you wouldn't mind stuff like this?
The case began because a woman, a foreign national employed by the U.S. government, told another employee she suspected the man with whom she was in a sexual relationship was listening to her calls. The employee who misused the NSA's systems also incidentally collected the communications of a U.S. resident on two occasions, a move that requires a court warrant.
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wasn't there another incident where people at GCHQ or wherever were sharing peoples photos they had obtained from webcams, mobile phones etc?
 
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Skidder said:
Wow, aren't you just a treat. My life is pretty interesting as far as I'm concerned but there is not a lot of value to the NSA in tracking it.
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We get it. You've got nothing to hide. Congratulations.

My point was not everyone is in a situation that can afford such a "I don't give a crap" attitude.

Once again you (and others in this thread) are being naive and narrow-minded. Privacy is extremely important to maintain a free society. Not to mention protect other people in sensitive situations that don't live in free societies.

Anyway I've said my piece :)
 
Skidder said:
I don't think the NSA are interested in any of my data. If they want to bore themselves senseless, that is there look out.
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Which has little to do with the post I quoted, which suggested you'd rather use google to to protect your private data. This thread is not about what normal people see posted on facebook...
 
Amp34 said:
Which has little to do with the post I quoted, which suggested you'd rather use google to to protect your private data. This thread is not about what normal people see posted on facebook...
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I was not saying I would rather use google. I said I use google for my business. I wasn't aware that facebook provided a suite of business apps....


Anything I post on social media or indeed on here, the GPS on my phone or car, the chip in my passport etc. etc. I just don't care about. Piece together my life if you wish. I don't get the risk to me.
 
There was a very well documented case of a airline exec having their HD scanned by airport security.. only to then find out some how that their competitors had very good information about their internal designs etc..

Security is one thing, passing foriegn trade secrets to native companies to further native growth and domination is another.. state sanctioned industrial espionage.. everyone does it apparently.. Cloud computing for companies.. great..
 
the_chicco said:
Some of the guys on here are so narrow minded its unreal. What makes it even more alarming is this is an overclockers forum, we already have an idea of the tech out there and what it can potentially do.

And AdladUK, I like the cut of your jib sir. I wish more people had their eyes a bit more open. Heck even I've had to sign some shady NDA's for some of my contract positions and the ease at which you can get sensitive data is alarming. And that IS going through the necessary protocols and procedures so lord knows what the likes of NSA / GCHQ can grab at the drop of a hat.
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Thank you, I appreciate that.

I've read so many "I've got nothing to hide" posts on a variety of places I kinda just lose interest now when I see people type that crap.

I mean there are countries where you can be put in prison for the rest of your life just based on your political view, or where you can be stoned to death for being a homosexual. And people can't understand why online privacy in a growingly digital World is fundamentally important? Very strange.
 
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Well if the NSA want's to know what I've ate for dinner or where I've been riding, wel whatever floats their boat I guess!
 
Skidder said:
I was not saying I would rather use google. I said I use google for my business. I wasn't aware that facebook provided a suite of business apps....


Anything I post on social media or indeed on here, the GPS on my phone or car, the chip in my passport etc. etc. I just don't care about. Piece together my life if you wish. I don't get the risk to me.
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Ok, fine. :)

Skidder said:
I run my business across google apps and use plenty of online services. I am not some Luddite. But things I don't want people to know are carefully protected (within reason).
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I assume thought by you don't put anything you don't want people to know on Google docs though? That was essentially what I was driving at.
 
So the EU is defending its citizens privacy.. why do we hate them again? oh yeah we're aligned with the US whose motto is "you're either with us or a terrorist".
 
balky12 said:
I suppose I am pretty chilled out about the whole thing.

I am of a view that if you have become a person of interest to the NSA it's probably for a good reason. Something like national security.
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What if they have a ton of information relating to (for example) paedophiles in British government and rather than sharing it they use it for leverage and to dictate British political policy to suit their own ends? what if they did such things worldwide? it's already out in the open that they were spying on Angela Merkel. Do you trust they will never use the information gathered for negative means? what would the world be like now if Germany had had this technology in the 1930's? ultimately there's far more at stake than just personal privacy if a technology such as this gets abused.
 
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