It’s Orwell’s world: We’re all in the cast of Big Brother.
The eyes of the world are on the cat-bin lady — and on you too. Mary Bale thought no one would see when she dumped Lola in a trash can. But the Internet found out and got mad. Andrew Leonard in Salon.
Obviously the cat-bin lady is not my favorite person, but I don’t like being watched either.
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September 3rd, 2010 at 02:40
And to out-sick that video, here’s one of puppies getting wet.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb4_1283184704
Being taken out and shot is too good for these people.
September 3rd, 2010 at 09:53
This is sick. With this and the video of that girl throwing puppies into a river, I think I just lost another piece of my faith in humanity.
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:53
the truly scary kind of spying is the spying that we willingly consent to. the mere fact that we use search engines gives companies enormous amounts of data about ourselves that can be used to provide us with targeted advertising. they know that around 4pm we will be looking for a slice of pizza and voila, you get a text message at around 4pm telling you that there’s a pizza hut about 50 feet from where you are standing (location provided with your phone’s gprs) plus you get P10 off. the data that we put up on facebook allows people to know a lot about us, but the data that we omit from facebook is also figure-out-able using the data we have already put up. in a study, it was possible to determine with accuracy using data (including photos, friends, status updates, notes) provided by people on facebook by people who identify as homosexuals but did not indicate that they are in fact homosexual (on facebook). what’s even more eerie is that facebook can predict with accuracy which when persons are about to hook up, using data such as how persons check up on each other’s photos, status updates obsessively. so it’s not just all of us unknowingly being observed by big brother, we have also provided information about ourselves to big brother in order to use modern conveniences such as internet search engines and online networking tools.
September 3rd, 2010 at 15:44
Whenever you’re in public, people will see you, camera or no.
There’s a similar furor over privacy and security issues in LiveJournal, since they decided to integrate themselves with Facebook (which is notorious for this) and Twitter without asking their users first. Cue THOUSANDS of people saying WE DO NOT WANT THIS, and yet their staff does nothing.
September 4th, 2010 at 05:42
She deserves a page on your book The 500 People You Meet In Hell.