Posted on 06/28/2014 12:07:35 AM PDT by PoloSec
Edited on 06/29/2014 10:43:59 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Prosecutors building a sweeping disabilities-benefit fraud case got a trove of data from the Facebook accounts of more than 380 people, the social media giant said this week as it disclosed a nearly yearlong legal fight over the largest set of search warrants it has ever received.
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Well, if you haven’t done anything wrong you shouldn’t worry. Besides, these people needed to be caught and the ends justifies the means. /s
I think its madness that people divulge so much information about themselves online. There is not even much of an illusion or pretense of privacy and anyone who expects it is lying to themselves.
Yet we have a generation of kids who are being raised on it, and their view of things will be drastically different. Their whole lives, and nearly every mistake, youthful indiscretion and error of judgement will be recorded for all to see for all time. It may lead to a massive lessening of standards, privacy, modesty.
I know a teen who unloads his adolescent angst over household spats to Facebook.
So I advise him like an uncle on Facebook. If it gets too uncomfortable for him, I guess he’ll sooner or later quit.
This is a difficult one. It is about catching government cheaters which in general is a good thing. But it could be about catching you and me when we’ve done something that isn’t illegal but which Caesar frowns on.
The idea of psych disability is so fraught with peril. I don’t deny that such a thing could exist. I don’t buy that it has to be forever.
“The idea of psych disability is so fraught with peril. I dont deny that such a thing could exist. I dont buy that it has to be forever.”
I had a guy at work explain to me how he went to a psychiatrist and got a “crazy letter” and now gets $650 a month from Social Security. This is on top of the other benefits he gets. He works a few hours a week and not very hard.
That’s crazy....
Postings on facebook are more or less public. You have no expectation of privacy in a facebook posting, since any of your “friends” and turn the information over to the authorities.
What kind of insular civil “service” mindset must people have to think that everyone they come into contact with shares their venal and selfish attitude towards public disability pensions?
“The idea of psych disability is so fraught with peril. I dont deny that such a thing could exist. I dont buy that it has to be forever.”
If I can’t handle the stress of my job, that is my problem. I will have to go out and find another way to earn a living.
The problem is that Government jobs are seen as once in a lifetime jobs and that it would be unreasonable to hold them to the same standard.
The peasants are expected to understand, accept and pay for this.
*chuckle*
In a “Life Imitates Art” irony, the Harold Finch character on “Person of Interest” claimed to have invented “social media.” When Reese expressed surprise, Finch explained that “the machine” couldn’t get enough data on people but “you’d be surprised what people reveal voluntarily.”
(No facebutt, “twit”-ter, etc. No, not me...)
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