Where is your privacy now?

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The realm of where you can be by yourself and not be monitored is shrinking quickly to zero. Two articles drive home this fact:
Surveillance Cameras Reduce Private Space
and Prying eyes are everywhere.

The only good point is that it's not a monolithic government doing all of the monitoring. The bad point is it's not a monolithic government doing all of the monitoring. You have to worry about your boss, spouse and parents as well.

Your keystrokes on your computer, webcams, GPS tracked cellphones, these are just a few of the many ways you can be tracked wherever you go, whatever you do.

I think the end of the second article sums it up pretty well:

"There's a lot more insecurity because people don't know if they're being watched or monitored. They're more cautious. And therefore there's a certain amount of paranoia that exists today. Who's watching me? Little Brother? Big Brother?"

The future probably will be even more intense.

"It'll take a while," Saffo predicts. "But we'll be well into it in the next 10 years. Wherever you go, you get to be tracked. And finding privacy is really going to become an oddity."

Privacy will become an oddity. How quaint. Not.

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