Are people spying on you? Is the government? If so, is it legal? Laura and I like to watch FBI night on Tuesday evenings. Our favorites are FBI and FBI International. It’s always quite intriguing how quickly with just a tiny bit of information they are able to find people. Traffic cameras, sidewalk cameras, social media accounts, or by pinging a cell phone, which then opens the door to a floodgate of information! The pieces come together, and they find the person that they are looking for, amazingly, anywhere in the world!
I recently read an article in POLITICO, entitled “The Government Really is Spying on You – and It’s Legal.” The government has data that has been collected through legal channels and digital means: mobile phones, computers, social media, banking, and more ways than we can imagine. As I have told my children, grandchildren, and many others, “Be careful what you post on the internet, it will remain there forever, and it very well may resurface again.” Before we all get too paranoid, it probably doesn’t make a whole lot of difference whether they have it in some digital file or not. For most of us, it doesn’t matter, unless we aspire to run for a political office, where some dirt from our forgotten past will make media attention! Nonetheless, information is being gathered!
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