Orwell's "Big Brother" in "1984" now seems so small in front of the unholy trio of Facebook, Google and NSA
Do You Know Who's Watching You?
Republished with translation of the contents of the infographic from: WordStream, “Do You Know Who's Watching You?” >>> https://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-privacy-internet-privacy
Do you lack privacy on the internet… Facebook changed the default privacy settings (Privacy Settings) If you haven't changed your privacy settings, the whole world knows what you're doing.
2005 ~ 2010
Photos, Wall Pictures, Gender, Image, Likes, Other data.
Which means that as of July 2010, 1,802,330,457 people have access to your information!
With that in mind, and according to a 2010 report…
* 26% of parents have posted photos of their children and 13% have included their children’s names alongside the photos
* 23% of Facebook users know nothing about privacy settings or don’t even bother to look into them
* 7% have listed their full address on their profile
* 3% have disclosed the times they have been away from home
In May 2010, Facebook changed its default privacy settings, along with giving advertisers access to users’ names and identities.
This gave them almost unlimited access to information about consumers.
Facebook’s terms of service state that not only do they own your information (section 2.1), but if you don’t keep it up-to-date and accurate (section 4.6) …
they can terminate (close) your account (section 14).
Google Street View
Google Street View, which is growing every day, has been perceived as a “burglary service,” according to a new study.
A recent survey of 1,317 people surveyed found
that 57% of them described the street mapping service as an "intrusion."
Google Street View coverage includes all of the US, the UK, Australia, Japan and most of Europe!
Google has stated that its ultimate goal is to be able to provide Street Views from the entire world.
Google's "all-seeing-eye".
In June 2010, it was revealed that Google had collected and stored a huge amount of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi connections as part of Street Views. Several countries, including Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom, are conducting investigations into the matter.
Thousands of photos have been removed or are the subject of requests to remove them. Many uncensored photos of many people in “strange” situations have been found. The photos that have been removed so far include:
1. Nude people sunbathing
2. Lawbreakers
3. Protesters at an abortion clinic
4. Couples having sex
5. Men entering or leaving adult stores
6. A woman's house cat
7. The exteriors of military bases
8. A house in Arkansas engulfed in flames
9. People "haggling" with prostitutes
10. The entire town of North Oaks, Minnesota
Google Buzz
Google may have dominated web search, but when it comes to social networking, they need to go back to the drawing board.
When Google Buzz launched, it automatically, without asking anyone, published users' personal networks based on who they interacted with the most. Now, anyone could see who emailed whom.
Being inherently private, it turns out that email contact lists can hold a lot of secrets, from the names of personal doctors and illicit lovers to the identities of anti-government activists.
And in the real world
On average, US citizens are filmed about 200 times a day!
There are 30 million CCTV cameras in America.
In the UK, citizens are filmed on average over 300 times a day
Approximately 200 million US citizens have had their call records monitored since 2001.
President Obama has supported a policy that would lead to the creation of a national DNA database.
The file would include all people arrested, even if they have not been convicted of a crime.
Since September 11, 2001, America's National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting detailed call and conversation records from the country's three largest telephone companies in the hopes of creating what it calls:
"The largest database ever created in the world."
