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    In large cities, Americans are photographed on the average of 20 times a day.


    Everything you charge is in a database that police, among others, can look at.


    Supermarkets track what you purchase and sell the information to direct-mail marketing firms.


    Your employer is allowed to read your E-Mail, and if you use your company's health insurance to purchase drugs, your employer has access to that information.


    Government computers scan your E-Mail for subversive language.


    Your cell phone calls can be intercepted, and your access numbers can be cribbed by eavesdroppers with police scanners.


    You register your whereabouts every time you use an ATM, credit card, or use EZ PASS at a toll booth.


    You are often being watched when you visit web sites. Servers know what you're looking at, what you download, and how long you stay on a page.


    A political candidate found his career destroyed by a newspaper that published a list of all the videos he had ever rented.


    Most "baby monitors" can be intercepted 100 feet outside the home.


    Intelligence agencies now have "micro-bots" -- tiny, remote control, electronic "bugs" that literally can fly into your home and look around without your noticing.


    Anyone with $100 can tap your phone.


    a new technology called TEMPEST can intercept what you are typing on your keypad (from 100 feet away through a cement wall.)


    Kinda scary.... :hmmm:

  • #2
    Hmmm...I might have to look that up on snopes...

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    • #3
      Originally posted by meat12
      Your employer is allowed to read your E-Mail, and if you use your company's health insurance to purchase drugs, your employer has access to that information.
      Not entirely true. As for the email, it has to be a company based email, otherwise they would be invading your privacy. There is one touchy situation and that's if they suspect that you are using the email to harass someone or are using it on company time, but I am not sure of those details.

      As for the healthcare, this would be a major HIPAA violation. Just because the employer has given you insurance, does not give them permission to know what you are getting through the insurance. They will get in a shit load of trouble if they were caught doing that. They are not entitled to know ANYTHING health related to you unless it directly effects the job. FOr instance, if you were half blind and you had to operate some kind of machinery.

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      • #4
        Like Shortz said.....Some of these are not true.

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