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Monday, October 22, 2007 

If You Still Have Any Illusions of Privacy...

... you should see this video. This is a presentation given last year by Steven Rambah (owner of Pallorium, a private security firm) at a security / hacker conference (Toorcon). He gives examples and a good, overview of how business like Google and governmental agencies collect data on people.

Unless you have been living under a bridge for the last 5 years, everything about you (and I mean just about everything) has been and is being collected, stored, and analyized:

  • Blog posts that you write (like this one)
  • Email that you write
  • Phone calls
  • Purchases
  • Web sites visited
  • Pizza that you order (yes, really)
  • You location at any given moment
  • The eipsodes of lost that you Tivoed
  • Your magazine subscriptions
  • And MUCH more...