I know exactly what you are doing online…
Would you like to hear me saying that to you? Most likely not. What if I tell you the government is spying on you. Imagine at any minute, you receive an email saying “I know what you surfed last summer!”. This is what Germany is trying to enforce by saving any connection data be it internet, voice calls, SMS or any other for a period of six months. Anonymization tools and services like Tor are illegal from then on as well. As a reaction, Google have threatened to close the German version of Gmail if the new law is enforced.
I am happy Google have made their official stand early clear, and hope to see other big names participate in the protest as well. If the government has the right to track all my online movements, then in the future we would expect tracking devices attached to us so that they know where we are as well. This is more security right? But it’s also zero privacy.
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Never thought about it this way. That would be nice coverup. We are sniffing your data to pick the elite to defend our country!
I will add more miss shots to my rich record just in case.
They’re taking all the joy from the internet. People won’t even vote anymore, cause it’s not anonymous anymore. I guess sites will eliminate logins eventually. We already know who you are, go on.
They kinda do it, DeadEye.
I wonder if they would track in-game scores and try to recruit you as a sniper if you get a lot of head-shot kills in FPS games.
First Egypt & China cracking down on bloggers and now Germany Big Brother’s project?
What is this world coming to?