Here’s why some people try to avoid facebook! It’s all about who, what and why. Who has the information and who else get to see it? What do they do with the information? Why are they keeping the information? [NOTE: We wonder whether Santa Claus will be tapping into this information gold mine? Or the folks who are readying those detention camps?]

“Under tyranny, privacy is usually the first right to be trampled in the name of public safety. Its destruction is incremental and its loss a victim of attrition in the wake of more immediate crisis. Disturbingly, many people become so fixated upon the threats of the moment that they lose complete track of the long term derailment of their own free will in progress.” (SOURCE: Axiom for Liberty blogsite)

We think this slate.com report may send chills down your back as you think about:

• surveillance (spy) cameras
• telephone GPS tracking
• Operation Garden Plot and “resettlement camps”
• “Minority Report”
• “Brave new World”
• “1984” and Big Brother (sans the Holding Company)

Saving Face –

How Google,

Facebook, and

other tech

companies

hide behind

“opt-in” policies.

“Has Google finally grown up? The care with which it has handled facial-recognition technology seems to support this thesis. Compare it with Facebook. When Zuckerberg’s social network unveiled its facial-recognition technology in June, it found itself in the middle of a global privacy backlash. But Google has avoided that fate: A few weeks ago, it unveiled a technology to automatically identify one’s friends in photos uploaded to Google+—and almost nobody noticed.

“The different reactions are easy to explain: Facebook enabled this feature for all users without asking their permission, while Google made its tool optional. Facebook may now be warming up to this more-polite approach, too: Its recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission stipulates that all future changes to existing privacy controls would require user consent.

“The Web seems to be moving away from the ‘opt-out’ mentality of the arrogant bully—e.g., ‘We know you’ll love this feature, so we’ll enable it by default!’—to the ‘opt-in’ mentality of the smooth-talking diplomat—’Hey, check out this new feature—but only if you want.’ As Facebook’s embrace of ‘frictionless sharing’ shows, it’s one thing to force us to share by altering our privacy settings—and it’s quite another to convince us that sharing is something we really want to do. The former is an offense; the latter is a cause for celebration.

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