Have you seen this?

[singer_s_lament]

rant

Government agencies demand applicants'passwords to social media.

What the hell is this country coming to? Soon they'll want to open your damned mail and scan your thoughts too!

/rant

Comments

[ferneberga]

Sounds like something out of George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother is watching you

[singer_s_lament]

Continuously. It makes me aggravated.

[sinfulslasher]

Soon they'll want to open your damned mail and scan your thoughts too!

What, you seriously think they're not already doing this on the sly? (Well, the mail part. I'm sure they're already working on developing thought readers, too.)

[singer_s_lament]

Oh, Gabby. I'm pretty sure about the mail part. I can't tell you how many times I get a letter or a bill and the flap is open.

[antesqueluz]

Scary. 0_0

[bluefirebird]

"Good morning and welcome to your interview. Please remove your trousers and undergarments and bend over here. We have a nice padded couch for you to lean over while we violate you as part of your interview."

Asking for details of your online presence and then monitoring your publicly available feeds is one thing - after all, if you say it publicly then why shouldn't you expect your employer/college to read it (although anonymous accounts are a much greyer area, if you are not publicly advertising that you are the source, why should you have to tell anyone that you are the source

[singer_s_lament]

That book scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Mostly because it was *so* very realistic when it came to predicting human behavior and how, due to human nature, man would screw up technology. Not to use it for the betterment of man but for their own personal greed.

/rant

...for now