Online Privacy, what privacy?

As you read this post today, chances are that you're online, logged in to some website or network. 

In recent days, there has been a public outcry over online privacy, or lack, thereof. At the time of writing this, in US, Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years for providing Wikileaks with some classified information and Joseph Snowden, my friend, I call him Joe, is still getting to terms with the lifestyle in Russia after being granted temporary asylum there for almost the same crime. But sorry Joe you've to be watching your back there as you have two enemies. The Kremlin that granted you asylum so that it gets hold of the precious classified information that you have from NSA will poison you after your box of secrets about your former contractor is empty. The 2nd one is the CIA. Your dad was granted a visa to visit you in Russia. Your dad, as a father of a smart boy like you, should know better. He and his passport are likely to be tagged with secret devices to track your exact location. You're not any safe my friend, not even from your family. 

 It may appear as if it's only the US that has "classified" information classified as "classified". Every politically clever nation has. Now let's leave the political dirty work to the Obamas and Camerons of this world and focus on the public, I mean the unclassified. In some cases, we need to use common sense. Each time you go online, you should aways expect that someone else can see your personal information if they're required to or if they want to. Always keep that in mind.

It is, for security reasons, (and obviously for spying purposes) imperative that our personal details are handed over to relevant authorities if need be. I know online offenders are fuming with rage over this statement, but if you're not an offender or if you have nothing to hide,  there is no need to panic. People should accept it and get over it. We are in a technology age where we should learn to live with the realities of it or else technology won't be effective at all in our lives. Online life has become our second life and is rapidly being encompassed into our natural daily lives, therefore it is important that it is regulated and monitored against the vices that may be found in it, just like in our natural lives. The idea of policing is inevitable, it is how it is done that we should be questioning the powers that be about, not why it's done.

Our privacy is tempered with, daily, and in most cases we are unaware of this. In Britain they have just installed Wi-Fi-ed bins that can sneak into our smart gadgets and steal our information for good use, I mean to give us ads that are more relevant to the information they got from our gadgets. I think that's great, unless of course you're using your girlfriend's iPad, you'll be annoyed by ads  about lipstick and tampons, after all, it's your choice to look at them, they're only on the bins, not even on your gadget, so who said they're for you, in the first place?

That bossy MicroSoft® company isn't any softer to its competitors either. At the time of writing this they were busy getting signatures from the public against Google's privacy policy on Gmail or something like that. What a shame. MicroSoft® is the culprit of the same, if not more. Only the stupid can buy into their mediocre claims about Google's email policy. Do you know that MicroSoft®'s child protection system online is also a breach of privacy? They send me e-mails every week telling me what websites  my daughter visited etc,  seriously, stalking my daughter online. 

I know that Uncle Sam had been spying on his EU friends. Well, what did you expect? That he was caught red handed doesn't mean that his victims aren't spying on him either. Remember when the twin towers were bombed in September 2001 the NSA and other US security agencies were blamed for ineptitude. Now they're doing all they can to prevent a repeat of that and they're being nailed by the people who blamed them, oh my God! You'll never be right in this world, no matter how right you're. 

So yea, it's true that your information is being watched online for legal reasons and unlawful purposes, but who cares? If. You have nothing to hide I would advise you not to panic, some things have to be done to protect us, I mean more important things than just the privacy we are moaning about. 

At first when I heard that the NSA was eavesdropping on our communications, I almost collapsed, but then later came to my senses, does it matter to me at all? No, not in any way. I just feel pity for the NSA employees who have to listen to phone sex romps, albeit free of charge.

Online spying has to be done, yes, done by an authorises agency to protect us from any dangers. A number of possible terrorist attacks were prevented as a result of this. So while we may feel grieved by the acts of NSA and others around the world, we should be proud of the amount of losses of lives and acts of criminality they have prevented  by sneaking into our information. However, I don't think Snowden, Asange, Manning should face  jail sentences, they made you people aware of what's happening behind the scenes, which will continue happening anyway, anywhere.

Don't be angry at me, am only telling the truth.  This is the world we live in.