Privacy? is it true !!!!!!!!!

Let’s talk privacy. How would you feel if someone in the world kept a watch on you and all that you do all the time? I know no one would like it. I am not talking about God who keeps a watch on us all the time. God is fair that is why no one ever feels that his/her privacy is breached. What if instead of God it was a machine or a grid of machines that keep a watch and record all that we do or say, now I don’t think you would be feeling anything fine about it. Because we humans are not fair and it was the rules and policies that we made/make created something called as privacy. If we never had any secrets or if our governments, organizations did not want to hide anything from the world or each other we need not have anything in private.

I know you use Google to search the web, Google logs all the keywords that you search and maintains it in a permanent database to track and analyze user behavior and preference. Now when Google logs this data do you think they would not log your IP address and other details like the browser that you use, oh did I miss the operating system. Is that breach of privacy?

When you send an email from your office it s sent via the office email server. Now the smart ones are thinking that is known to all. Oh how did your boss know what you were doing in the office and what emails do you send and receive. The emails are scanned for key words and stuff like that (All organizations do not have that practice) so does it stop the organizations from seeing what you do? Did you ever read what you signed when you joined the organization? (Someone will rush back home and read it)

Your data is backed up in a central server. You are so happy you will never loose data and so is someone else who can see all your data. We know in today’s world data is all important. What if your data that is backed up to a central server can be accessed by anyone with the appropriate privileges? Have you thought about it before letting your system being backed up? You could have had information that belongs to you and only you. But now that the information is residing on an alien system you have no control over it and anyone can do anything with it.

Our lovely yahoo, hotmail and other web-mail services. We all use it to keep in touch with our dear ones. Did you know that those emails are scanned for sensitive data and some key words (I can’t write the key words out here, how do we know that this blog is not scanned for it). If any of the key words are found it will be reported to the 3 letter acronyms organizations and background verification process is executed. If you are found clean you are good to go and no action is taken. If you are found to have connection with any of the unwanted element of the society, the hunt begins.

I don’t know if I should really write about the telephone conversations that we have with our loved ones. Is it been recoded by the service provider? just because the government asked them for it.

Do we really have privacy or is it an illusion that is drawn in front of our eyes. May be yes may be no, but do we know the truth about it or are we just trying and believing so that we can be at peace. May be we will never know.