Thursday, March 29, 2007

You are under SURVEILLENCE

If you are walking alone on street and you are thinking that no one is looking at you, than you are wrong, there are eyes and ears which are constantly monitoring you and your all life is like Jim Carry's movie Truman Show, in which all his life is broadcast via cameras and he don't even know about this.This thing is already start in our life too, daily by hundred different means we are constantly under surveillance by authorities and by companies also.I was reading a article written by Michael Hanlon in Daily Mail in which he explain in detail that how our activities are monitoring by companies and how to avoid these and stay invisible. Below is the briefing of this article.
Today life in west is almost impossible without cards, your plastic money. So what to do to hide from Big Brothers eyes.Here are some tips.

1) Don't give your personal details , unless its mandatory.No need to give your name and address, if you buy a microwave, its not for guarantee, its for company data base and may be sold to others.

2) Customer satisfaction surveys.No no, they are not for your satisfaction, they are using to get valuable marketing information.Don't fill it.

3) Cash is good to use instead of cards, you know Why? because companies spent millions of dollars on software just to get the data from debit cards and credits to reveal your spending habits.Every time when you buy something from card you leave a trail of information to track.

4) Throw away your supermarket 'loyalty cards' , don't go for small rewards which are nothing in returns what they get - your probable income, spending habits, your family size and social class.

5) Halt your travel if your really want to invisible. Modern border controls databases get all your info that where and when you are going and coming.

6) Your mobile phone is a Global Positioning System to track you. Mobile phones constantly emit signals through which your network operators can-and do-tracking about you that at what time where you were, which route you use.

7) Computers, turn it off when you are not near it, install good antivirus and anti spywares or protect your computers with firewalls, just secure it ,any one can get your info from it, if any hacker hack it or spywares attack your pc, than your passwords or bank details easily go to someone else hand, because spywares search your hard drive for info.

8) Don't register on Internet sites without knowing it that its secure or authentic site or not.

9) Explain you children that never ever register their-selves on sites without your knowledge, children have tendency to say truth so they can pass information to wrong hands.

10) Don't say truth, lie , in the case if you are bombarded with request for personal details from people who have no good reason to ask for this.

11) Cold callers are also in this race. Don't respond to them, either on door or on the phone, just hang up or tell them gently, they are on their job.

12) CCTVs, do you have any idea that how many are these. Some 4.2 million CCTVs have been set up in most cities and towns of UK. They are setup by councils and by police.CCTV is largely unregulated, although its use must comply with the 1998 Data Protection Act.You have no automatic rights to see the footage unless you can prove that you are the main focus of these.

13) Congratulation, you have been selected - you have won the lottery, have you ever receive these type of letters ? don't pay attention on them unless you are sure of their authenticity, they are often attempts to gather data used to sold to mailing companies.Bin these letters.

There is no doubt our life is not our life any more, more and more we are going to advances in technology, more and more our privacy is invaded by companies and governments.