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I was going to make my first blog post about the book 1984<\/em> and Big Brother. But after I thought about it, I don\u2019t really think that best describes where we are in the world right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology \u2014 we live with it every day. Every day new advances make our lives easier. But if you just step back and look at what we\u2019ve become, you\u2019ll find that we\u2019ve given up so much of our privacy by embracing everything technology has to offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about the things we used to do without much thought. Remembering phone numbers, reading a map, doing simple math \u2014 for crying out loud! I know I can\u2019t remember phone numbers anymore. I can still read a map, but can the younger generations? My math skills were never great with higher math, but addition, subtraction, and division? No problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever watched someone behind a cash register trying to give change when the register or their phone calculator isn\u2019t working? You can see the \u201cdeer in the headlights\u201d look on their face as they try to figure it out in their head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology has given us better lifestyles and an easier way of living \u2014 but it\u2019s come at the expense of our own intelligence. We\u2019re dumbing down as a society. I won\u2019t say we\u2019re dumb as dirt yet, but we\u2019re getting there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our ability to do basic tasks without even thinking isn\u2019t the only thing we\u2019re losing to technology. Our personal privacy is disappearing too \u2014 and we\u2019re doing it to ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about it. Remember when phone conversations were private? Walk down any street and you\u2019ll see people on speakerphone, broadcasting both sides of their conversation to anyone who\u2019ll listen. That\u2019s public information now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We post our daily lives on social media \u2014 where we are, where we\u2019re going, who we\u2019re with, what we\u2019re doing, and what we just bought. Did you know burglars use social media to figure out when people aren\u2019t home? Why spend time watching your house when you\u2019re broadcasting your schedule for free? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t stop there. We use technology to help keep ourselves and our families safe \u2014 tracking devices on our phones so we know where our kids are, security cameras to monitor our homes, AirTags to keep track of our stuff. But every single one of those things can be used against us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AirTags can be used to stalk you. Someone can track your phone. And there have even been stories about people at security camera companies watching customers\u2019 footage for \u201cfun\u201d or harassment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s just what we<\/strong> are doing to ourselves. It doesn\u2019t even touch what the government can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we get to Big Brother, we need to talk about Big Business. That\u2019s right \u2014 big business is watching us more than the government ever could. Companies track and monetize nearly everything we do \u2014 what we buy, what we watch, what we search, and where we go. Advertising runs on it. Search results are shaped by it. Our data is packaged, sold, and traded like any other product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We traded away privacy for convenience and \u201cbetter deals.\u201d And in doing so, we became the product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Brother doesn\u2019t need to build a giant database about us. The government can just buy the information that\u2019s already out there \u2014 the same way any business can. None of it was collected illegally, so no laws were broken. The information about us is treated like any other product, and the government is just another customer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the things we post online? Public information. Big Brother isn\u2019t snooping \u2014 he\u2019s just reading what we put out there for everyone to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Big Brother really does<\/em> want to know everything about you, they have their own high-tech ways of finding out. One of them is a device called Stingray<\/strong>, used by law enforcement. It mimics a cell tower, tricking nearby phones into connecting to it. That allows whoever runs it to intercept calls, read texts, and track locations \u2014 not just from suspects, but from anyone nearby. It\u2019s already used by local police, and federal agencies have even more powerful versions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t about refusing technology or trying to live off the grid. It\u2019s about being aware of how it can affect our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I being paranoid? Maybe \u2014 but only to the extent that I want to see the whole picture and keep control of my own life and information. I don\u2019t want others controlling it for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey there swingin’ bachelors
Are you tired of the steady drip
Drip, drip of Gonorrhea?
Then Peter Rooter’s for you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Rooter, that’s the name
You just flush your troubles
Down the drain
Rotten Peter, rotten Peter, rotten Peter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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