
''You already have zero privacy. Get over it,'' Sun Microsystems' Chairman Scott G. McNealy famously noted. So far everyone who had not been living under the rock knows that the government is spying on its citizens. You know, for your own security they are listening on your phone conversations, collect your messages, analyze your e-mails etc.. I hope you feel safe. What is lesser known is the fact that spying is a booming, huge business. $48 billions of your money is being spent on spying.
Intelligence Senate (now, that is contradictio in adjecto) Committee spells out the costs to taxpayers, every one of you, my fellow Americans. It estimates that the average annual cost for a government intelligence officer is $126,500, compared to the average $250,000 (including overhead) paid by the government for an intelligence contractor. The U.S. Government spends an immense part - 70% - of its intelligence budget on private contracts and only 30% within the agency, better known as the Defense Intelligence Agency. Even the CIA has about 60% private contractors employed in the business of making money out of your money.
You could be upset, angry as the Granny is, enraged over those facts; another proof how the corporate giants and its servant, the government, are taking your money to make profit is maddening. Or you can join grassroots’ resistance and try to change things. Or, and isn’t America all about making money, why wouldn't you simply buy some shares of the biggest contractors like BEA Systems, Boeing, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and make a killing. These companies already provide technology and personnel to U.S. agencies involved in foreign intelligence and are actively lobbying intelligence officials to buy products specifically designed for domestic surveillance.
For the years to come, you will be watched and spied on. Video surveillance cameras everywhere coupled with ubiquitous cell phone recording devices, DNA testing for the government vast databases, biometric identification techniques, RFID chips that would record your every move, the electronic banking system that is recording your every transaction, Google that analyses your gmail and stores your browsing history make this dystopian amalgam of the world in which you sand naked. All your life will be scrutinized and used for data collection, and you will have no privacy at all. Perhaps Privacy Lost by David H. Holzman can teach you a thing or two, Gene Hackman and Will Smith’s Enemy of the State could entertain you, but do not overlook this great opportunity and profit on the value you have lost forever – your privacy!!
Buy, buy, buy… buy BEA, buy BA, buy LLL, buy, buy, buy now when your government have already sold you and your privacy out. Funny, don't you think, they sold you out closing the deal with your own money. One must admire the genius of the government! By the corporations, for the corporations...
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3 comments:
So what is the fix, or it there one?
The fix? Ha!!, a long, long fight on all the fronts. Anonymizer (link on the rigth) masks your I.P. so Google and other mosters would not be able to storage your Web habits / history is a small, albeit worthy start.
Remedy is in the people... no matter how inept for a change they (all of us) look now.
Who cares about privacy as long as we have the money. Hmm... we do not have any left
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