In Honor of Data Protection Day

I aspire to bite the hand that feeds. Or at least nibble a little less at the teat of the source of a lot of services I use but sort of hate myself for.

ideals + google - spare time = self loathing.

In any event, this article is disheartening to say the least. It sort of out big brother's Big Brother. And this from London, the city of surveillance cameras.

We are constantly wrestling with profound concerns about the future of public space and privacy - very real and very scary debates related to data collection and retention, surveillance and privacy infringements on a scale once only the stuff of science fiction and dystopian novels. To quote a character from the film Strange Days, the question is not if you are paranoid, but if you are paranoid enough. So we fight against the abuses of data capturing and infringements on our right to privacy, and yet sometimes still have to struggle with where we draw the line. Because on one hand we get Google trucks with video cameras and denials for health insurance or jobs based on faceless information, and on the other hand, we sometimes get this:



Hazzah! sayeth the knights as they fight against unnecessary and unwanted invasions into our personal lives, profiling, and data collection and retention.