Got an e-mail alert from Clark I'd like to share with you:
Do you hate legal mumbo-jumbo? Well, consumer reporter David Lazarus recently read through Time Warner's entire 3,000 word privacy policy and terms of service. What he discovered is that Time Warner reserves the right to track the Internet habits of its high-speed customers.
This info includes what websites you visit, how long you spend on them and what e-commerce purchases you make. They can also read your personal e-mails, according to the terms of service. Time Warner is also allowed to disclose personally identifiable info about its customers to advertisers, direct mail operations and telemarketers for a price. A company spokesperson claims they're not doing all this just yet, but Clark wonders why Time Warner is even allowed to reserve the right to totally invade your privacy.
And it's not only Time Warner that has these kinds of policies -- AT&T tracks very similar info on its customers and records their TV viewings habits. While it's never good to look reflexively to Washington for a solution, Clark believes in this case we need an ironclad privacy policy from Congress to protect the privacy of your viewing and surfing. After all, would the CEOs of Time Warner and AT&T -- or those on Capitol Hill -- like it if the public saw every one of their e-mails?
And I have some questions / concerns of my own. Did you know that stores register your purchases when you use one of their "Customer Loyalty Cards?" Some even sell that information - and those who don't soon will.
Did you know that most ISPs will hand over your surfing habits to LEOs without a warrant?
Did you know that the FBI purchases the credit files from credit reporting agencies on every American?
I got a safe deposit box at the bank. That came after signing five pages of a "Terms of Service Agreement." In the end, they could have said it all in one sentence: The bank reserves the right to give your information, safe box contents, etc. to any inquiring LEO agency with or WITHOUT a warrant.
Finally, at Montclair State University, they require students to carry a special cell phone equipped with a GPS so that they can track you 24 / 7 / 365. See the story at:
this day and time if you walk out of your home privacy is gone we have let the tech genie out of the bottle so the best advice i can give was one that was given to me at one time "do not say or write any thing that you are not willing to answer for later in life" the other is "what one knows one knows,what two knows everyone knows" don't be ashamed of being in a militia or other group that supports your beliefs and never under any circumstance
lie or make apologies about what you truly believe in. in the end we all have to answer for our own works
The hottest place in hell is reserved for those that in a great moral crisis choose to remain neutral _________________ "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
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