September 14, 2019
The Surveillance State: Have Americans Unwittingly Opted In?
By Julio Rivera
Let’s be honest. When was the last time you sat down and read through the entirety of an app or hardware devices terms of use? The usually thousands of words long legalese omelet is easily bypassed by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on the “I agree†box and unfortunately, that’s what most Americans in the modern world of instant gratification tend to do.
I mean, all of these apps that we use on a regular basis to order food, listen to music, and even find a mate, require that we “opt in,†and whether we have a conscious understanding or what that truly means or not, doing so has allowed for everything from the contents of your inbox and contact list to control of your phones camera and microphone to be manipulated by the application.
Read more:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/the_surveillance_state_have_americans_unwittingly_opted_in.html#ixzz5zbTRAs2v
