there used to be a lovely feller on a forum called 200mph, moniker was euro, or eurostar or some such thing. lived in lincolnshire, retired from the raf, loved his busa..i had one too then and used to call in on him and his equally lovely missus from time to time.he told me that the raf station he worked at collected every bit of data from mobile phone, land line and computer useage and kept it for ten years. kinda spooked me, the ever rising face of big brother. last week i had another reminder of how watched we are, purely through our own fault. ive been working at a place called brewers court in norwich, finished the job a week ago. i have an iphone five. i never use it for anything except phone and for texting. being old, i still use an old fashioned diary for work. my phone has a menu that pulls down showing weather, stocks etc..i only found it last week by accident. it told me all the usual stuff, then informed me if i wanted to go to brewers court it would take me 17 minutes...
im carrying a device in my pocket which is tracking me. imagine how far reaching that goes. not just where i go, and how often, but also obviously how fuggin' fast...thats really not a good thing for all of us.. then its logged for ten years...
how did we ever let technology take control of us. at present my points still count against me for insurance, even though they are over three years old, because for insurance purposes its five years. the law will change again soon, and it will be 7 years for insurance (they tried to make it ten!!!) how long will it be before they are allowed to access every detail including hoiw fast you occasionally go on your bike. it truly is beyond sinister.. ..what makes it worse is its kinda intelligent surveillance..it not only knows where i went but reasoned that because i did it a lot i was working there. it flashed that reminder every day except today, obviously having worked out from past data i didnt work saturdays.freaky...
im carrying a device in my pocket which is tracking me. imagine how far reaching that goes. not just where i go, and how often, but also obviously how fuggin' fast...thats really not a good thing for all of us.. then its logged for ten years...
how did we ever let technology take control of us. at present my points still count against me for insurance, even though they are over three years old, because for insurance purposes its five years. the law will change again soon, and it will be 7 years for insurance (they tried to make it ten!!!) how long will it be before they are allowed to access every detail including hoiw fast you occasionally go on your bike. it truly is beyond sinister.. ..what makes it worse is its kinda intelligent surveillance..it not only knows where i went but reasoned that because i did it a lot i was working there. it flashed that reminder every day except today, obviously having worked out from past data i didnt work saturdays.freaky...