Via RegisterUK -
How frightened would you be if you were secretly planning to get pregnant, without telling your husband, and discovered that someone had written to him telling him about it? Or, put the other way, how would you feel if you discovered your wife was pregnant only when someone dropped you a letter?
And who would that person be? It would have to be someone like Robbie "Cracker" Coltrane, right? A deep profiler with the power of a hypnotist...? Or it would have to be a Government spook. They could do it, surely, the way the world's spooks monitor all of us: easy. They tap our phones, right?
Well, the thing to remember is that it really did happen. And no, if you thought it was phone tapping, you're wrong, and it's a misunderstanding which I won't make any friends for clearing up. But you need to understand the basic principles of data mining to understand why the world of spooks and the world of search engines are about to overlap, and why you should be nervous about this.
It is a rather simple example of the world that is changing around us...yet it holds a powerful message. If we don't look at what is happening now, how do we know when "they" have gone too far?
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