Surveillance. The word means many things to many people. For the CDC it may mean keeping an eye on virulent disease incidence. For government agencies looking for dissidents, it means something much different.
National Geographic has a detailed article on surveillance, which provided information I was not aware of, much to my surprise. The owner of the most satellites in the sky isn't the NSA, or even the USA, at all. It is a private company.
There are a lot of such tidbits in this article, which makes but half-hearted attempts to avoid propaganda. You can practically hear the cheering in the background for the brave spies ferreting out our every private moment.
I thought you'd want to read it, so here it is.
In a serendipitous coincidence, HuffPo has an article regarding regulatory boundaries being established to reign in the excesses of panoptic surveillance users of common internet services are being subjected to. Some years ago, I read a EULA from Macromedia, in which they requested permission to use the camera on my computer.
There has been tape on that camera ever since.
There is no tape for the mic.
Have any of you had any ideas on how to prevent auditory surveillance from using our cell phone mics? I'd sure like a heads up if you have.
