I’m on my Android phone and I click on the AP news feed and it
wants permission to access the GPS to know my location. Google+ and Twitter request
the same as well as the Connect’Em game I played the other day. No, no and NO!
The world does NOT need to know my every move...
Okay, I understand AP’s request,
they can then target news feeds for my location. Google+ and Twitter, so the followers
and people in my circles can better connect with me. Honestly, though, the
writers and bloggers I follow (or who follow me) on Google+ and Twitter do not need to know where I live
and my friends and family members already know the places I frequent. The whole
thing rather creeps me out. The last straw- this morning I read on BBC News about
IoT or Internet of Things in which everyday objects, say the newest jeans you
just bought, are equipped (um… implanted) with “tiny radio-frequency
identification devices”… “which in turn can be connected to the web” and broadcast your every move. The
article goes on to state “IoT advocates claim that overall interconnectivity
would allow us to locate and monitor everything everywhere and at anytime”. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15004063)
This does not appeal to me. Maybe to get away from it all I’ll go live in Green
Bank, West Virginia. It is a designated radio quiet zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone). 

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