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PRIVACY in PERIL

I want to write some ROUGH notes about privacy.

I was followed by the Ireland cops (THEY GO AROUND BEING SUSPICIOUS).
As they were trailing me around they could look up my real name & address via their traffic computer and they would see that the paperwork was in order and that I've never been in trouble
of course they could look me up online too using my real name... and Irish cops these days are not nice, they are like goblins, many of them
Now what do these dipshits plan to do with that stuff they find about you online ? Grow even MORE SUSPICIOUS ?
They'd see your social media stuff, they'd also see if your name was dragged through the papers
Luckily I've never been in trouble
I grew up before all the 'surveillance.'
The web can be an unfriendly place.

I GOT ON LINE 24 YEARS AGO WITH a DIALUP MODEM ! NOW us OLD-TIMERS HAVE BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK.

I WOULD LIKE TO THINK WE REJECT THE MODERN WEB AND CLICK-BAIT. we WON'T DOWNLOAD PHONE APPS, WE HAD ALL THAT ON OUR DESKTOPS IN THE nineties. It's a GIMMICK.

WE WOULD KNOW TO KEEP OFF social NETWORKS.

THEY ARE ONLY FOR NEWBIES.

I have the advantage that I have been around for years.

WHAT ABOUT THE BORN-YESTERDAY BRIGADE ?

The worst people are being empowered by the combined all-in-one smartphone/videocam/twitter.

I don’t like the idea of folks trying to find my stuff online
because there’s a lot of goblins out there.
plotting our downfall
Also, average joes have ridiculously common names: 'John Murphy' type names which gives them anonymity.
My real name is rare so I would be easy to lookup
only one other person on the internet has it.

an edgy post you wrote will just be ammunition for these goblins.

OR.... IS THIS PAGE THE WORK OF A MADMAN ? yew decide.

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