Googly, Googly… revisited… Facebooky… Facebooky…

How is anyone surprised by the “Big Reveal”, in every entendre imaginable, from Facebook that ALL OF YOUR INFORMATION WAS USED IN A WAY THAT YOU DON’T LIKE… AND THEY TOOK YOUR FRIENDS INFO TOO… BECAUSE YOU LET THEM.

How is the news?

We’ve been talking about this for over 5 YEARS!  It’s now 032118…

And, I’m always fashionably late to the party!

Where have you been?

(Update 091113: Yesterday, Google lost a similar decision to the one below.  It was on Appeal before the Ninth Circuit.  The Folks at EPIC are happy… but doesn’t the this story make more sense and a seem little less conspiratorial now that we know the NSA has been collecting all of our data and doing so with the aid of our allies?  Originally Posted 072712)

“In April, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission fined Google, saying the company “deliberately impeded and delayed” its investigation into Street View.

It’s unclear what, if any, penalties would be imposed on Google by Britain’s ICO or regulators in any of the 10 other jurisdictions in which the company had wrongly retained Street View data.

“We need to take a look at the data… There’s all sorts of questions we need to ask,” an ICO spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity because office rules prohibit him from being named in print.”

The above quote and where I decided to begin and end it may seem a little confusing, but there is a point…

Today we find out that Google has not destroyed/deleted all of the street view info it was caught collecting in Britain. Keep in mind, when I say “street view info” that includes wi-fi networks and names, e-mail addresses and various and sundry other items of information having nothing to do with a street, or the view from it.

Here’s the fun part however… Britain’s regulators, the IOC, are very “upset”. There has been aplenty “tough” language directed at Google for this blatant breach. Yes… they are terribly, terribly upset don’t you know.

While Google has apologized, it is clearly not enough for the IOC.  In all fairness it’s not enough for me either but here’s the punch line; the IOC is demanding to see the information for “forensic analysis”.  Seriously… You Brit’s are Brilliant!  “Yes, yes, I will need to see all the pornography you have so I can determine if it is actually pornography.  I will also need plenty of time to review it… alone…”

So why did I take the above quote from where I did?

Without question Google was harvesting the same information here in the U.S. that it was in Britain.  No doubt about it.  And the U.S. is watching closely what is going on across the pond… very closely.  But why?

If the IOC is successful in gaining access to the Google information for “forensic analysis” because Google has been very, very bad… then U.S. regulators will not be far behind the Google spanking bandwagon.  What red-blooded, privacy cherishing, citizen wouldn’t want Google to be punished for collecting a bunch of info it shouldn’t have?

Well… this one.  If punishing Google requires the government seeing all of the intel, I would prefer Google to get away with it and we can deal with them in the market place.   Think about this for a second, who would you rather have possessing your secrets, a private company answerable to the legal system or a government answerable to no-one?

The monster under my bed has always scared me the most by whispering “don’t worry…  I’m from the government and I’m here to help…”.  Now he’s muttering “googly… googly..” and my parents still don’t believe me.

Your freedom is directly correlated to your ability to live your life anonymously.  If you care.

Apparently, like the rest of the planet, I may just elect to drink myself to sleep.  Unlike the rest of the planet I will only do it late at night… straight from the bottle… in front of a full length mirror… crying…

NSA disguised itself as Google to spy, say reports  (link added 091213)

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Former CIA Director, and Communist, John Brennan calls for Treason

During a panel interview with fellow travelers, John Brennan calls for rising up against the President should he fire the Special Prosecutor assigned to flesh out all the Russia Coooooh-lluden’ goin’ on.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-24/former-cia-director-calls-coup-if-trump-fires-mueller

In the above article at Zero Hedge, H/T Drudge and of course Tyler, Brennan apparently feels the climate is safe enough to propose what amounts to be a Coup should the President terminate the investigation now running wildly around in the backfield.

I say “Go For It!”

One, Mueller has no reason to be doing what he’s doing unless he’s focusing on the previous Administration.
Two, I prefer my Soviets and their fellow Fascists in uniform… It’s about time they crawl out of the woodwork and make themselves easier to see.

I agree with Brennan… It’s time for a Coup.

I must confess that Trump has never been my guy, but the more these Socialist A-Holes pull out all the stops to preserve their Utopian dream the more I find myself liking him… The more I find myself not caring about what he says or does… The more I find myself rooting for this crass Bull in the China Shop to dismantle and destroy all that the Smug Elitist Ass Hats have quietly accomplished over the last 60-years in their goal of eradicating the Greatest Experiment in Self Rule the World has ever known.

Go ahead Brennan, you commie, marshal your troops. Hugo Boss isn’t around any more, but I’m sure you and Clapper can find a like-minded stylist to whip up some snappy uniforms on the QT.

Spydenfreude

Riddle me this…

You lived in a world were Privacy was Paramount but it was interrupted by a loud hacking from inside your mind. Outrage ensued falling on deaf ears.

Who are you?

The American People?

Ha! No…

Did you guess the Democrat led Senate Intelligence Committee? Well you’d be right! Well done.

For those of you who guessed the American People you’re only half right as apparently we should not be outraged but instead consoled that the Intelligence Service we pay for spends the majority of its time searching our computers and passing around naked pictures, and texts, they find there.  (I wonder if the applications they use to determine the age of those subjects, like our sons and daughters who are doing dumb things, is good enough to make sure the wholesome folks at the NSA and CIA are not breaking even MORE laws. Just sayin’.)

Anyway, it looks like the impenetrable computer systems maintained by the Senate were accessed by the CIA.  For those of you that follow the news like I do I realize the Feinstein crew was up to their old tricks and ‘stole’ certain CIA memos which they were expressly forbidden to even copy.  But how do you threaten to leak damaging information and extort your ‘friends and colleagues’ without stealing it first?  Even so…

I must admit I’m enjoying some satisfaction knowing that those who have professed to think ‘it’s just fine’ that the Government is spying on its own citizens, cough…Feinstein…cough, are now experiencing exactly the treatment they viewed themselves above.

This story has seen very little coverage and I think I know why.  The story would be a short explanation followed by a single yelled exclamation of “How Does It Feel?!”.

In all honesty this should be a terrifying story, and it might be if we have not all been out here in regular working man territory trying to digest the fact we have absolutely no privacy left, and no protection from our own government, for the last two years.  I believe if this story about the CIA spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee were a stand alone event all eyes, and outrage, would be focused upon it.

This brings up an interesting phenomena.  Some years ago I assisted, in small ways, a professor friend with a paper on Mortality Salience.  Mortality Salience is how humans react to provided evidence that certain behaviors or actions either are or will be harmful to their life expectancy.  Part of what my friend was working on is the interesting reaction humans have when the information becomes so overwhelming in terms of either too many of their actions being life threatening, or a single action which is painted as immediately threaten in every way. The individual’s reaction is to tune out the warnings.  They simply become numb to the desired level of alarm those issuing the warnings are attempting to facilitate.

To make a long story longer, I think this is why nobody seems to care about our FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE SPYING ON OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS…

AND… THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DEFENDING THE ACTION.

What’s yet another ground shaking, unbelievable, constitution destroying event when we have been inundated with them for the last 5-years?

We have become numb to the fear and alarm which should rationally be present.

We are now Deer in Headlights.

So, smokem’ if you gotem’.  Eat more Bacon and Stop Wearing your Seatbelt… What the Hell?