Your Computer Is Always Tracking You
Posted on May 21st, 2009 in Computer spy software, Internet usage monitoring, Miscellaneous | Comments Off
Whether you know it or not, your computer is always keeping a track of your activities while you are on it. All information like your login names, passwords, visited websites, downloaded files and credit card numbers disclosed while surfing the Internet, are all stored in the browser history files, cookies and temporary Internet files of the computer.
It is important that you remember to clear the history of all these files on a periodical basis to ensure the privacy of your PC. Moreover, every time you surf the Internet, windows works at saving information about your activity so that it can provide you with a much better computer experience.
Assuring your child the privacy he/her needs is somehow the test every parent has to sustain sooner or later in order to move from the area where the relation parent – children is loaded with a high degree of selfishness to the situation when the parent trusts his/hers child, respects his/hers decisions and knows how to guide him through his own personal example without imposing anything. This is quite the challenge because a very large number of parents tend to live through their children and want to achieve through their kids what they did not accomplish until that age.
With more and more countries obsessively developing the monitoring of every aspect from the people’s life, a natural question occurred, and that is “how close are we from an electronic police state?â€. Many of us are aware of all the means of surveillance, but don’t do much about it, because people already have in their minds the connection between a police state and the horrors committed by the secret services and therefore today’s happening cannot be associated with a precedent. But it is all around us and is even more dangerous because we can’t even see it. The electronic attempt on something that might resemble total control is very subtle, it’s quiet and constantly working against the regular citizens.
Now that you know how well you are being ‘stalked’ while using the Internet, you will be equally happy to learn that you can ensure your Internet privacy by clearing your history tracks. To ensure your privacy protection, it is better to develop a habit of clearing your history tracks every time you use your computer.
I was reading the other day a new version of the idea, or roomer if you prefer, that Microsoft could get involved in the “spy” software niche. Microsoft has already advanced a patent application for a computer system through which the employees should all be part of a wireless “spider†network that would monitor their metabolic features. I must add here that such an idea can raise one or two eyebrows in the Human Rights backyard and I can’t help myself to notice that Microsoft could now join in full daylight the Orwellian ideas that wonder around in our times. The evaluation of a worker based on a computer assessment of their mental and physical state it’s maybe too much, as unions also say.
