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I was reading another article here about privacy on the internet. No one cares about privacy anymore? I beg to differ.

"As a social good," says Richard Posner, the federal judge and iconoclastic conservative, "I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth."

While I agree that people tend to hide behind screen names because most of the time they can get away with flaming comments (Youtube), I do not think they should be using Google maps to locate where you are when you are updating your social networking status.

Don't people realize if you piss off the wrong person they could easily hunt you, your friends and your family down if they searched hard enough? It's bad enough Facebook and sites like it link you to everyone you know. I see my family post pictures and comments for everyone to see and warn them to be careful how much information they put out there. I'm sure they think I'm paranoid.

What do you think?

See, I told you it would take your soul. Just like WoW and Facebook.

We can't wipe our hindy without somebody finding out. Soon Deano my pc won't be able to surf anyway I need a serios upgrade. I personaly don't care if someone wants to track the sites I visit ;most are alien or animal searches anyway. But any good info I find when I do an upgrade will be stored on an other pc just for referances there are just too may bugs out there on the highway these days. Hell I pissed my ex off and he thought he would put a scare into me by shooting across my property. After several calls to the police and not having enough evidence on who was doing the shooting all they suggested was to list, sell and move. I didn't particularly care for the way in which my case was being handled so I kept my 20 gauge and marlin 30/30 loaded and waited for the next incident. He blasted my mailbox off and I blasted back; that ended that foolishness. Yes privacy is important especially for women, some are niave and leave themselves vunerable I guess the point I am trying to make is be discrete and pack some protection. You don't need a cannon, but where I live sometimes you need to send a subtle message. I'm not paranoid just a little tempermental.

Big brother is always watching everything we type and enter into the virtual world is monitored by the gov't the air force has a facility in Arizona i believe just for the soul purpose of monitoring the internet...

Eh we let it happen and did nothing to stop it so we can't really complain well we can complain it just does absolutely no good...

Ever wonder why they wanna know were we all are

All I know is I didn't do anything wrong I was being harrassed and put a stop to it. For 9 years there has been peace in the valley.

While we're on the subject of privacy...do you expect a reasonable amount of privacy in your email account? How is it any different than snail mail privacy?

Google and an alliance of privacy groups have come to Yahoo's aid by helping the Web portal fend off a broad request from the U.S. Department of Justice for e-mail messages, CNET has learned.

In a brief filed Tuesday afternoon, the coalition says a search warrant signed by a judge is necessary before the FBI or other police agencies can read the contents of Yahoo Mail messages--a position that puts those companies directly at odds with the Obama administration.

Yahoo has been quietly fighting prosecutors' requests in front of a federal judge in Colorado, with many documents filed under seal. Tuesday's brief from Google and the other groups aims to buttress Yahoo's position by saying users who store their e-mail in the cloud enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

"Society expects and relies on the privacy of e-mail messages just as it relies on the privacy of the telephone system," the friend-of-the-court brief says. "Indeed, the largest e-mail services are popular precisely because they offer users huge amounts of computer disk space in the Internet 'cloud' within which users can warehouse their e-mails for perpetual storage."

The coalition also includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and TRUSTe.

For its part, the Justice Department has taken a legalistic approach: a 17-page brief it filed last month acknowledges that federal law requires search warrants for messages in "electronic storage" that are less than 181 days old. But, Assistant U.S. Attorney Pegeen Rhyne writes in a government brief, the Yahoo Mail messages don't meet that definition.

"Previously opened e-mail is not in 'electronic storage,'" Rhyne wrote in a motion filed last month. "This court should therefore require Yahoo to comply with the order and produce the specified communications in the targeted accounts." (The Justice Department's position is that what's known as a 2703(d) order--not as privacy-protective as the rules for search warrants--should let police read e-mail.)

Google backs Yahoo in privacy fight with DOJ | Politics and Law - CNET News