RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

["Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Sanders [mailto:rmsand@concentric.net] 
> Sent: 12 August 2005 03:52
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the 
> scenes payola
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:19:43 +0200
> Antoine <melser.anton@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > How would you feel if a company bought lots of
> > too-small-to-be-readily-visible flying cameras (like the 
> mosquito-cams
> > in the Dan Brown book Deception Point :-)) and followed you around
> > wherever you went (in these "public" places, which would certainly
> > include shops but not the bathroom...)? Without you being 
> conscious of it?
> > Very useful to follow someone around to get their (window)shopping
> > habits, and almost certainly completely illegal. How are 
> these different
> > (apart from legality)?
> 
> Um...you may not know this, but Holly is in the UK.  London 
> in particular has
> cameras all over the place.  From what I've heard, it's not 
> possible to walk in
> public there without being recorded.  In public, there is 
> already a trail of her
> activities.
> 
> Bob

Just FYI:  There's also cameras installed in the toilets of many
establishments.  A friend of a friend got arrested for snorting class A
substances in the lav.  The funny thing is that he was a copper and he
had confiscated the said substance a few minutes earlier . . . :D

Quoting from WSJ.com: "In all, there are at least 500,000 cameras in the
city, and one study showed that in a single day a person could expect to
be filmed 300 times."  Now if you add the times you've been to the
toilet you see that Holly is quite accurate in saying that you can only
be alone in your thoughts - Big Brother is watching . . .

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