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Friday, April 3, 2009
Big Brother is alive and well, and trawling social network sites...
I was just reading a weekend paper here in Wellington, New Zealand, where an article reveals how "Big Brother" is alive and kicking and trawling social network sites to gain possible information on their members.
The article discussed how NZ government departments are trawling these sites for information that can be used against people on social welfare benefits for fraud purposes. One woman had been caught, redhanded you might say, because she admitted a relationship on the social networking site, and the department took a fraud case against her.
Even employers are in on the act looking for information to use against employees: In one case an employee was caught bragging on the site that he was taking a "sickie" from work because he still had a massive hangover.
If this is happening in a little country like NZ, just imagine on what scale it is being used in larger countries like Australia, Britain or in North America and Europe?
In the United Kingdom they propose to go one step further by creating a special website designed for monitoring the internet. So much for democracy and freedom of expression.
In my opinion they are a despicable bunch of Sebastians!
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