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Businesses, 3rd Party Spies & Departmental Services Which Sell Lives Down The Line

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Saturday, 15 November 2014 23:43

There is a huge business for your details on the black market. How many times have you entered an online competition, filled out a survey for a company or had interviews with agencies who are employed by Govenment departments for social security? Your details and your personal life is being stored in locations unknown to you across the World. The British telephone company British Telecom (widely known as B.T) own the entire telephone system and rent it out to third parties. When subscribing to a broadband service, customer details are given to that company, and telephoning either B.T or the broadband services will often get you through to a third party broadband service employee in another country- usually in India. So, the question is- how safe are your details being kept?

People around the world are concerned about the level of surveillance and spying by Governments and companies- and it is worryingly possible for anybody to have their location, family, bank details and any other personal information leaked to another company or paying 'customer', despite the fact that the company itself claims not to sell details onto other 'third parties'. Social security details are not safe because third party job agencies and health assessment companies have access to benefit claimants' home details and health records, and some of the head offices of those companies are not located in the United Kingdom. With people looking to make a fast buck, you should be very concerned about your information being picked up by yet more third parties.

The British Government itself has been too quick to employ foreign agencies to assist in social security matters, where claimant details are accessible to that company, and details could again be passed furthur down the field. British driving tests were found to have 'gone missing' in Texas, USA... Not many people in Britain knew that young people were having their driving tests looked at in America. The former ruling Labour Government in Britain willingly agreed to have bank details passed onto America in co-operation with the U.S Republican Government at the time. You can even buy a person's home address from the U.K Government at a fee of less than ten pounds via a website- and although the release of your details has to be authorized by you, just how many times have those details been accessed unauthorized- and how many people know of this service and bother to check?

Even though seemingly genuine and innocent the ideas start off, the passing of information from department to department, from country to country has ended up serving third party interests, often with rogue elements seeing the candid supply of information as being a chance to map out potential customers- or potential victims of larger more organized crime. Is this just 'paranoid thinking'? We have just seen the world experience a technological revolution, social networking revolution and a financial collapse revolution all at the same time as revolutions against corruption in politics has been launched. Arab countries have been rubbing shoulders with other nations to 'collaborate' on intelligence sharing, and so yet more of your personal details have been passed down the line... and none of us have any idea who has processed that information, or where the information has been stored. The storing of the information on computer networks must be the greatest concern. Long lines of companies bidding for Government contracts will only furthur expose people's personal information to a larger and more dangerous world. Broadband networks can be hacked, broadband employees can be bribed, Government departments can be infiltrated...or vice versa. It's like finding the one thousand and one ways to cook up a Chinese recipe- as long as the recipe fills the pockets with quick cash or fills the bellies of those hungry for names and locations. Often the asking price might be a really low- as low as companies and people are willing to go to supply our information.

Email accounts can be hacked, details stolen, a home address in Britain could be stolen from the Government site I mentioned earlier- so much information could have already been sucked up by hackers. Computer scam sites and malware has been happily sucking up and sending our data from our homes to as many agencies and companies without our knowledge, and flaws in operating systems such as 'Heartbleed' and 'Poodle' have been present for many years should continue to be of great concern to us, because of the rogue elements across the internet. How many people know that webcams can be switched on and off by a remote attacker without raising the alarm on computers. Many people might have found solutions to the problems of cyber-security, but many people use outdated operating databases/operating systems, or simply do not bother to update their computers and anti-virus programs, or cannot afford a decent security package. The truth is, the next cyber-security attack or operating system flaw will be discovered by somebody very soon, and exploited...be it a software engineer, an advertizing company programmer, a Government spy. Our efforts to secure our cyber-networks are about as effective as putting eggs on the backseat of a car and driving down a dirt road for a few hours each day.

The secret life of your family, friends and collegues is no longer secret. Nobody seems to mind listing their day's activities on Facebook or Twitter, everyone wants to be seen as the most happening social bug on the face of the earth... Let's turn back the clock to a time when the internet, surveillance, third party snooping and big black market selloff of information did not exist- a time when only cat burglars and nutcases attacking people in the street were the threat. If we could show our world today to the people of the 19th Century- we'd probably be labelled as mad and stupid, all of us, for being so innocent in using computers which rogues can easily tap into, and allowing the wholesale of our lives to be stored on computers just to be sold onto more rogues. The technological and social revolution has presented problems, and yet future generations will be targetted more and more. People are mad that details have ended up being sold down the line. Companies and rogues will continue to refine the methods of making money from users of the internet, targetting people ready for the plucking before they get to the age of credit card usage- so that financial companies, shops and third party advertizers can effectively target who they want to and control that generation like a shepard's dog does with the sheep.

National Security for any nation means a lot to most people- it's just we don't have the ability to stop our lives being sold down the line...which surely only means we have far less privacy, and more worryingly that our details could be grabbed by practically anybody who is willing, paid or not to do the job- and that surely will not make our lives and homes safer as the information grabbed from us accumalates in Government and company offices or in the hands of people and terrorists who want to do us harm. Plenty might have been written similar to this, but we should never get tired of being reminded that our details are big business for many- but a wealth of information for others.
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