Paranoia and security agencies monitoring people via the internet through social network platforms and their twittering, tumbling and cell-phone use, has spawned new words like surveil, surveilled, and surveilling. They are the off-spring of surveillance taken from the French, meaning keeping watch, which came into use in the early 1800s. The Electronic Frontier Foundations Danny OBrien has ten important suggestions for things you can do right now to minimize the extent to which you are surveilled on the Internet. Or, closer to home, The DA was cautiously surveilling human waste collection and redistribution.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:55:27 +0000