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<blockquote data-quote="Garycrow" data-source="post: 1021853" data-attributes="member: 30743"><p>This^^^</p><p></p><p>Everything you put on the internet is out there for posterity, it's never going away so be prepared for it to pop up 20 years down the line. Don't put anything online that you don't want to defend sometimes in the future. That's the reason I'm not big on posting pictures of myself, my family, or other personal pictures that could link back to us. I don't do facebook, too much of a chance of being misused. Data collection is immense nowadays, the limit is analyzing that data. It might not trip any triggers or get looked at by a human, but rest assured it's stored. You think NICS data isn't stored? Congress already went down that road several years ago when it came out that the justice department under Janet Reno was keeping data indefinitely in violation of the law. I can pretty much guarantee you that Holder has done the same since it's a fox guarding the henhouse situation, there's no reason for him not to even though it's technically illegal. Illegal doesn't mean much when you're the one interpreting the laws. </p><p></p><p>It's not just the government either, big corporations make a lot of use of data collection and online spying. My own company has used internet data mined from facebook and chat forums like this in employee firing and other disciplinary actions over the last few years. In one case where they fired an employee the company lawyers showed up with copies of his wife's facebook posts to prove their positions. In another case there was a forum just like this one that employees frequented and used to vent their frustrations with the company. The company lawyers met with union officers and pulled out pages of negative posts they had printed, then they went down a list identifying each poster by his username and stated what the employee's real name was then demanded the union shut them up or they'd take disciplinary action. </p><p></p><p>If you think you're anonymous with anything you post on the internet, you're wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Garycrow, post: 1021853, member: 30743"] This^^^ Everything you put on the internet is out there for posterity, it's never going away so be prepared for it to pop up 20 years down the line. Don't put anything online that you don't want to defend sometimes in the future. That's the reason I'm not big on posting pictures of myself, my family, or other personal pictures that could link back to us. I don't do facebook, too much of a chance of being misused. Data collection is immense nowadays, the limit is analyzing that data. It might not trip any triggers or get looked at by a human, but rest assured it's stored. You think NICS data isn't stored? Congress already went down that road several years ago when it came out that the justice department under Janet Reno was keeping data indefinitely in violation of the law. I can pretty much guarantee you that Holder has done the same since it's a fox guarding the henhouse situation, there's no reason for him not to even though it's technically illegal. Illegal doesn't mean much when you're the one interpreting the laws. It's not just the government either, big corporations make a lot of use of data collection and online spying. My own company has used internet data mined from facebook and chat forums like this in employee firing and other disciplinary actions over the last few years. In one case where they fired an employee the company lawyers showed up with copies of his wife's facebook posts to prove their positions. In another case there was a forum just like this one that employees frequented and used to vent their frustrations with the company. The company lawyers met with union officers and pulled out pages of negative posts they had printed, then they went down a list identifying each poster by his username and stated what the employee's real name was then demanded the union shut them up or they'd take disciplinary action. If you think you're anonymous with anything you post on the internet, you're wrong. [/QUOTE]
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