US rapidly becoming a society of technological surveillance
More and more the United States and other parts of the world are introducing changes in technology both on and offline that invade the privacy of citizens. Whether it is the telecom companies looking for a monopoly on the Internet and bandwidth or selling your information to the Government, or the Government itself perpetrating these privacy violations, the world is changing and people need to be more vigilant.
Recently Sears was busted mining computer data in a classic phishing scam usually employed by black hat hackers. FaceBook was called to the carpet by nearly 100% of its users for its ill thought out Beacon marketing software that was scraping user data and sharing it with the masses. AT&T was in a huge bruhaha just last year for selling out its users to the NSA. Verizon has had privacy woes in the past, causing them to offer a way to opt out of sharing your data with third parties.
