Reading stuff like this makes me glad I’m still in the electronic stone age:
HOW DO I SET UP MY WI-FI NETWORK TO EXCLUDE ANDROID DEVICES? If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi passwords worldwide. And isn’t it now, at this point, negligence to allow Android devices access to any business wi-fi network?
Frankly, I don’t know what to do. Nearly everyone is now using an Android device, and while I’m still using an antique flip phone, I am constantly made to feel behind the times. Why should I have to share every last detail of my life with the government? I figure they can always spy on me anyway (and probably have), but this is a matter of principle. I would rather not be contributing to what amounts to a vast, growing, anti-privacy bandwagon. It seems that constant demands are being made that I share everything everywhere. Well, I don’t want Facebook and email constantly streaming into my bloody telephone. As things stand, I often don’t want to even talk on the phone. I’m online too much already; must it be 24/7? What’s with this enforced mutual public exhibitionism? I don’t get it. The hell with “convenience” as an excuse; I’m with this commenter:
There is too much trust required to use today’s “convenient” devices.
What the hell is “convenient” about having email and spam thrown at you when you’re trying to drive somewhere or you’re standing in line at the store? Is there some sort of thrill that people get from being always connected, all the time? Why am I not thrilled?
Frankly, I find the whole thing inconvenient.
Makes me feel like an old grump.
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4 responses to “How is it “convenient” to lose your privacy (and be inconvenienced)?”
A right to privacy amendment would solve the issue with large fines and long jail sentences for anyone who invades your privact with ou court order. We democrats would like this amendment to constitution ;but right to life republicans refuse to support privacy amendment.
“A right to privacy amendment would solve the issue with large fines and long jail sentences…”
That’s BS. There’s a law against the IRS making audit decisions based on politics. There’s a law against the IRS sharing data with the FEC. There’s a law against the NSA engaging in domestic spying. Democrats broke all those laws, and will get away with it scot-free.
Just fuck off, captain* arizona.
Back on-topic, it’s a major shift in my frame of reference to realize that anything on wi-fi can be read by the government, should they choose to do so. It’s not just Google–Apple and Microsoft will have the same problem. The NSA can read every damn thing on every network, whether it’s the “dark” nets or the public internet. Prudence dictates that we assume they have already done so.
when laws are gotten around we don’t do away with laws we fix them and make them tougher on criminals