Why you really have no privacy

Choice Point- The easy explanation: Choice Point is data base company that stores information on you. You have probably never heard of this company or others like it. But it's heard of you. Company's, the government, and potential employers are able to purchase this information on you. The suspected information such as your criminal background is included but it also includes your street address, your credit score, things you have purchased, and just about anything else they can dig up on you.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChoicePoint

The Patriot Act- (1) The government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation. (2) The government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.> So not only can the government access your personal records, the keeper of those records will be prosecuted if they tell you about it. I have a lot more beef with the patriot act. Papers and effects includes your email, phone records, credit score, and any other documented information on you.

Social Media- We are all aware that social media sites sell your information to marketers. But did you also know that many employers also search social media sites prior to and during your employment? Why your relationship status and the activities of your weekend has anything to do with your ability to perform a job is beyond me.

Google- Google retains all of your searches. The searches can be used against you in court and are often sold to marketers as well.

Personal Email- Don't live under the illusion that your personal email is in anyway personal. Each email that you send is stored in a data base to be used against you at anytime. Say for instance you send an email joking about committing any sort of crime. Under the laws of the Patriot Act this is enough to warrant an arrest and conviction.

Cell Phone- Cell phone companies retail all of your phone call information and can be used against you whenever the government decides to. But it isn't just the government that can access this information, almost any regular person can purchase your personal phone records on the internet or through a private investigator.

Uncle sam is watching

So I leave you with one of my favorite quotes "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."- Ben Franklin. Laws that allow this type of breach in your privacy do not offer you security as most assume. They simply hinder your right to separate your personal and professional life and enable the government  and businesses to spy on you for there own personal gain.








** an update
In 2007 during President Obama's campaign he slammed the Patriot act stating "There will no longer be any illegal wire tapping of American citizens".
WATCH HERE
Then in 2012 he extended the Patriot Act.......... In other words you can't trust any government official to actually do anything about this. It appears that this extreme violation of due process will remain.

It looks like the bill of rights is a distant dream:
Article the sixth ...... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.