is big brother already around us?
103219
yes but not on everyone just on a few people who the Government feels should be watched
427662
i have the same question. i doubt it.. i don't think there is one.. everyone nowadays come to the net to do nasty things... maybe the 2 of us can create a room and invite friends huh?
1066749
it is already happening, pick up last months issue of wired, there is a whole slue or RFID tags out already, motorola just developed a medical implant the size of a grain of rice to be implanted with patient medical and family history as well as a tracker for new borns, the bad thing is that you can hack a RFID from over a few hundred feet away with a laptop.\n\nAlso the bible says that this is the mark of the beast.
591532
All be the same-doubtful. we are, and will always be different. However, i do think everyone will hear of mcdonalds or famous people one day. Technology is expanding. Anyone who lives in developed countries or has acces to the internet will have. Progress economically will match peoples knowledge. One day, everyone won't be able to drive for a few hours without passing fast food restaurants
1091114
I am excited for Big Brother All-Stars to begin. It will be a great show but Kaysar, Will, Howie, Janie, Jace, and Mike Boogie will have to a be a part of it to make it great tv!
127239
Ben Franklin said that "Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security."  \n\nI'm not sure if we will end up learning this the hard way, but we are becoming the USSA.  Wiretaps are part of a larger arsenal of tactics they are using to silence dissent.  It is likely that more sinister black ops programs exist that are tracking every one of us to some extent.  Think about every credit card purchase, every rewards card, every post on Yahoo Answers, every search engine search result, every survey, and every Amazon purchase or wish list being compiled and analyzed for keywords and other algorithm triggering events.  It is absolutely possible, and I would bet that it is happening now whether legal or not.  I believe it is completely antithetical to the definition of a "free" society, and I again believe it is to ultimately be used for more sinister purposes.
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I could happen. Homeland Security is probably using an automated monitor program to assess high risk comments that suggest further observation is required. Does that sound paranoid? If you look closely at some of the things the US gov is doing right now you would be shocked. Thanks to the Internet and our voluntary use of it, we have less privacy than at any time in our past. Big brother is alive and well.\n\nOh, and not to step on too many toes but free speech really isn't free any more. That dream is merely a fantasy. 911 gave the feds a chance to enact an unheard of degree of control. Now the government is passing some of the most anti-humanitarian legislation imagineable.
1034718
I don't really think Big Brother is listening to all our phone calls. Big Brother just doesn't have that much time and help.\n\nNot smoking? Here in FL people pretty much can't smoke indoors anymore, except in bars. That was a law passed by the voters. As a non smoker, even though I did not vote for it, it sure doesn't bother me to sit in a restaurant and not breathe in second hand smoke.\n\nI'm also all for the seat belt law. Aside from it protecting children, it also protects other people in the car from the 200 pound projectiles that morons become in an accident when they don't want to buckle up.\n\nBottom line (IMHO)-\nI don't really think that not wearing a seat belt is a right, as driving is a privilege. And since secondhand smoke has been proven harmful, I don't think people should be forced to be exposed to it.\n\nThe phone calls- that's something else. I do think there should be just cause for listening in on private conversations.
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hmmmm good qusetion by the way....\n\nWe are see now that every bit of tecnology is growing closer to gether, PDAs, laptops, phones, Home PCs, Home TV all have a lot in common like OS's, web, wireless etc. its looks like to me that the internet will spread as a funtion over new tecnolgy, allowing us to take our digtel lifes everywere. the internet will be the seemless movment of infomation of this new world, no longer confined to the dark rooms and offices, everything will be at our fingertips. as long as well keep the net open and free!
737739
Very probably, more than this New Labour idea of 'Open Government' will ever tell us.  \n\nHowever, I am more concerned about the technology behind digital TV which has a telephone connection, even now during the 'change over period. \n\nWhen will snoopers be able to listen to the conversations in our homes through the technology in TVs and that telephone connection?\n\nA few years back in the late 90s the European Union 'thingy' were considering introducing a 'Bit Tax' which would be applied to all computers home and commercial and linked to the amount of information we send or receive!  They threw that out  - temporarily?
622172
isn't there already????
609570
http://hosted.bbbsa.org/big/index.asp\nHere's the Big Brother Website.\n\nI can't tell you what other programs are in your area, but ask your son's school counselor.
89917
I never used it before but why don't you use big brother?
179518
Freedom from Big Brother.\n\nNo, seriously, it's called Anarchy. =)
31889
Yes, but it's not always intentional. A secret is just anything that no one else knows about. Everyone has things (big or small) that no one else knows.
944954
the fact that everything we are doing and will be doing in the near future will be documented automatically in your own personal profile on the central government database .Early next year they are going to be puting everyones medical info on the database ,do people realise this?.\nit starts with ID cards then its taking dna with out consent ,then face recognition cameras on every corner tracing your every move and constantly adding to your profile in the government central data base ,then its biometric finger scanning everytime you buy everything everywhere you go eventually turning us into a cashless society in which you use your finger to pay for everything all numbers ,being randomly stopped on the street and being asked to place your finger on there machine being tested in england and wales at the min ,all info going into your profile .\nat this point i hear people say ive got nothing to hide .then they want retina scans everytime you enter any building all still adding to your profile and face recognition cameras are not enougth they want to inject a sat nav chip in your arm the size of a tic tac how long before you have no choice in the matter of having it done because the system does not work if all are not part of it .sounds science fiction yet all science fact the micro chip was made by M.I.T and has been implanted on over 100 people this is an rfid chip yet sat technology exists,retina scan technology has been created ,biometric finger scanning yet not hooked up to the governments data base ,is being used in many school librarys and cafeterias to precondition this generation,its normal,the guinea pigs if you will ,and face recognition in early stages in the public is at the right standard to be implemented as part of the new world orders way of enslaving us. when it happens and you dont want to be part of this society you have to way up if you want to live in the wilderness or go along with being enslaved .this is gonna happen in years not decades.and all ive said isnt even half of it click on this link http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4839556520925774502&q=suspect+nation its a documentary that was on channel 4 last week ,this programme only really tells half the story yet if you dont know anything about this ,its eye opening stuff.\n\nif you want to go further and realise why there actually doing this click on this link\nhttp://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm \n\ni will definately opose this everywhere i go and debate it as much as i can but mainly try and inform people of what this means for humanity ,big brother is just a tiny piece of the big picture sadly. \nlaters.
656378
Sure, why not...the NSA is already monitoring our phone calls...so it shouldn't be too hard to integrate the two systems.  Plus, the government would like it, because they could actually have a record of who voted for who, and you just know they'll never use that against us.