Now, how to protect? So far we used anonymity to protect privacy, but considering all this intrusion, it’ll be quite hard. Personally, I use obfuscation tools. It means that instead of hiding what I do, I’ll show what I do and what I pretend to do. For instance, to keep secret about the “Sex and the city» movie (I’m not fan), I heard they’ve made some fake movie scenes in public places. So you have no way to distinguish between false rumors and true rumors. You can do the exactly same thing about your web browsing.

Especially, I’m developing a FF plug-in that generates fake searches (see my website). The same thing can be done for every kind of traffic, not only web searches.

Definitely, we have to forget about anonymity…

Maybe that might not be so bad as far as online data goes but what happens when the government wants to put tracking devices on our vehicles so we can be automatically issued speeding tickets when exceeding the legally posted speed limits? Or maybe track the amount of energy we use or food we eat and fine us when they feel it is excessive?

Those may be extreme examples of government control but many a times, seizing control over something is a step by step process. A little here, a little there until before you know it, complete control is obtained.

Either this means nothing (privacy itself isn’t really anything we need to protect in the forever bemoaning repetitive knee jerk fashion) or you are one of the people we need to track with this sort of behavior. Its as simple as that.

What is more important to us; safety and the ability to thwart kiddy fiddlers and terrorists or the certainty that out banal and dull emails and telephone conversations are kept secret from the people we choose to let protect us?