Week Two

The collective horror over the invasiveness of Twitter was an interesting thing to behold this week. It does appear that Big Brother is watching us, and is using our own blithe disregard of privacy to do it. After reading up on it a bit, the issues are worse than I had realised. Cookies I knew about, and didn't much like, but I didn't realise that applications on your phones (Siri for example) can listen to your conversations, gmail can read your emails, and cars can tell insurance companies about your driving habits. It's frightening, really. Mother Jones has an interesting article about it, read it here