Do You Love Big Brother?

My wife and me have one son, 16 years old, and we are determined to educate him to be totally free of any employer, and he is very enthusiastic about doing business by his own responsibility and risk.

We are now entrepreneurs, but we have waist almost the half of our lives working for collectivist companies where each person has no value. The only way to get free from big brother is free enterprise, and in our company we don't hire employees, only free lancer subcontractors, that is the future.

May be that the USA is becoming a new Soviet Union, but according with your constitution you have the right to stop and combat that tendency.

Jaime Soto Figueroa

Chile

Hmmm; Do I love big brother?

About as much as the idea of a muriatic acid enema.

Privacy is the product of a free society. Not just a means to an end. That any corporation can now spy on you just like the other big brother is bad enough but the prospect of retribution from your employer for what you post independent of work is absolutely repugnant.

How much privacy do I need to feel secure? All that I choose at the moment I choose it. The question is about as answerable as how many angles can dance on the head of a pin. Some would say 100, others would say 1000, I say all of them. And still others would simply answer that they do not exist.

Personally I stay away from face-book.

If my employer happened upon anything I write on the internet then so what. First I never use my own name. Second I never post from work so there is no chance of them finding my online name/s and I never discuss anything of even remote importance about them or incriminate myself in any manner that they may deem so.

It certainly would be an ideal country where there are no repercussions for exercising our free speech or any other of our civil liberties.

Some might even start calling this America.

The wicked flee, when no man pursueth.

Wait till del the cats employer finds out 1) he thinks he's a cat; and 2) he crafts dangerous archaic weaponry!

I work in a terminable at will state.

I know what that means.

I'm more visible than most.

I work in social networking, and am a talking head for our industry as well as our association. I travel the country and give talks about regulatory developments as well as technical topics.

I am adjunct faculty at a local university and conduct symposia there as well.

I have testified before congress, dept of commerce, state enforcement agencies, in front of intergovernmental panels, and have applied for an received grants. I'm on LinkedIn, have my own blog and on speed dial of about 500 companies in north American metalworking.

I stay out of limos with hollywood actresses (their choice) and I keep my clothes on when I'm around small barnyard animals.

Its not hard to find me.

My employer pays me to run our social sites.

That might be my bigger problem-where does "my identity end and My work for compensation" begin when they both overlap.

My wife's grandparents asked the same thing about telephone numbers. "Why we don't want people to be able to look us up in abook, why they might find out where we live? " Paid for unlisted number when they finally got brave enough to get a phone.

Peasant fears

, unless you have something to hide.

milo

Eversince 9/11 your civil liberty is being violated more than ever before in the name of security against terrorisim. Even in the UK since 7/7 things are getting heated up and hate to think what freedom will be unleased upon us during the 2012 Olympics. Basically, you can naively continue to believe that you live in a free society but the facts can be and will be quite different all due to Big Brother.

Privacy and security are pretty much of an illusion, these days. Anyone who really wants to get through your security can do so, other than the most petty frauds and thieves. But it still makes sense to safeguard and enjoy what privacy (or illusion of privacy) you do have.

The tradition of anonymity on the internet is a treasure, IMHO. Not for wickedness but for free speech. The networking sites are fine if you want to use the internet to promote yourself or your business. But it would be wrong to assume this is the best approach for everybody or for every purpose, or that the desire for privacy is somehow suspect.

The elderly, women, and children are, for example, special targets for the predatory element that uses internet media (and even telephone books) to locate their marks. Does this mean they are wicked or have "something to hide"? Some people know they need privacy for security, and others simply value it for its own sake.