Porn, Privacy, & The Government

Porn, Privacy, & The Government

Villanelle​(staff) • Nov 30, 2016

So while we're all distracted by Trump and Brexit the UK's "snooper" law quietly passed:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/snoopers-charter-theresa-may-online-privacy-investigatory-powers-act-a7426461.html

From The Independent:

"This week a law was passed that silently rips privacy from the modern world. It’s called the Investigatory Powers Act.
Under the guise of counter-terrorism, the British state has achieved totalitarian-style surveillance powers – the most intrusive system of any democracy in history. It now has the ability to indiscriminately hack, intercept, record, and monitor the communications and internet use of the entire population.
The hundreds of chilling mass surveillance programmes revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 were – we assumed – the result of a failure of the democratic process. Snowden’s bravery finally gave Parliament and the public the opportunity to scrutinise this industrial-scale spying and bring the state back into check.
But, in an environment of devastatingly poor political opposition, the Government has actually extended state spying powers beyond those exposed by Snowden – setting a “world-leading” precedent.
The fact that you’re on this website is – potentially – state knowledge. Service providers must now store details of everything you do online for 12 months – and make it accessible to dozens of public authorities.?"

My question to you is, do you take precautions to keep what you do online private?  Do you think privacy is even possible in this day and age? And do you even care?

Majari Yvern​(dom female) • Feb 10, 2017

This is a great topic. I operate with the assumption that nothing is do or say online is private. That being said, I try to protect my career and family from this more private part of my life by using a "scene name" online and in my community. I'm not in anyway ashamed of doing "that which we do", but I am aware that some things don't mix well. I avoid posting full face photos and revealing photos, and refrain from sending them privately also.

This is sometimes a problem in achieving credibility in the community, particularly online, but my family and livelihood come befor people I have never met in person.

Specifically in regards to data mining and government snooping, I feel that sadly we are in a post privacy world, and that ship is going to just keep sailing.

pirate • Feb 11, 2017

majari is right - privacy is lost - minimize as best u can
facebook ( not big brother ) knows u better than u know urself

Wolf​(dom male) • Feb 11, 2017

Actually this really isn't that new. I have family that has been in the government for most of there lives in various roles and they have been telling me that you do not have a private life. Now with the advent of the internet and social media its has become relatively impossible to maintain anonymity. Even when you have a screen name the trail is there via info you give to sign up IE email accounts. Now that being said if you are careful and look how the system is set up there are ways around. But then there is the IP address to consider, that to can be circumvented bust most people do not have the knowledge and skill to avoid detection. So the end is just do the best you can, do not draw attention to yourself , check the sites you go into there are public records to be had on everyone of them, you just have to learn how to access them. And some times trying to avoid " the man" casts unfounded suspicion towards yourself. Be careful of what you post publicly and on sites like FB be careful what you like and share. This is a problem we all face in the lifestyle we have chosen to live and for everyone in the " normal" life. Just sayin.
Wolf

Misdee​(dom female) • Feb 13, 2017

It is a partly human nature , to be curious but in the land of competition and financial segregation of classes curiosity seems to change into nastiness.
If you have ever owned chickens and had too many in a space together you have a fairly good picture of what happens with human beings. Just the way it is in my opinion. The struggle seems to be in finding the line individually to avoid getting seriously hurt . We have so much media coverage going on that it has created an environment of fear, and judgemental attitudes I personally do not think that government imposed censorship will actually do much in the way of improving the situation. I do not like character assassination of any kind and try my best to avoid it. I just bad a personal run in with character bashing via face book. Do you know that if you are tagged by anyone everything that you message through messenger can be accessed and read by everyone else who also has tags. So as soon as a name pops up you're it quite literally and it can turn into a cruel game of telephone. I learned that the hard way.
Ok so pretty sure that was a way too much info but maybe it will benifit somone.

privacy

susan 146 • Mar 11, 2017

i posted this before, facebook, skype kik yahoo not safe. these and other similar sites are monitored ny home security in us, i have a friend that works for homland warned me. ni picture change your name on each site do not post any pictures ever and personal info. do not give out your email, address or phone number. these officers of homeland security watch all these sites all the time looking for terroists and get our private scenings and conversations

Christy​(sub femme){Sub femme} • Mar 11, 2017

Hi and purr, just like a pussycat. If the goddess who rules the universe is not bigger than the white collar intellects we are in trouble. Christy. I clean houses and bodies and give good head. Life is ok.

Rod​(dom male) • Mar 13, 2017

One simple step you can take, especially for non technical folk is to start using the Opera browser.
It includes an in built VPN which hides what you do online from your internet company and anyone else monitoring your internet traffic. It is free and requires no special setup, simply enable the VPN in the settings and your browsing will be protected.
For non techies VPN can sound very mysterious, it stands for Virtual Private Network and in simple terms it creates an encrypted electronic tunnel from the browser to a server somewhere else in the world. This means anyone monitoring your connection cannot see which sites you connect to. For many years the people of China and other similar regimes have had to rely on VPN's to allow them free speech online, it seems now citizens of the supposedly enlightened west need the same tools to protect themselves from bureaucratic snooping.

Australia introduced mandatory data retention laws some time back requiring internet companies to retain browsing history of all customers for 2 years. Since this was introduced I have used VPN to ensure my private browsing stays private.

If anyone would like further information or help with installing and setting up a VPN using Opera please message me.

Villanelle​(staff) • Mar 14, 2017

I haven't really heard of the Opera browser - thanks for the heads up Rod!

Misdee​(dom female) • Mar 14, 2017

Thank you for the information. I didn't know what VPN stood for!