It's more than NSA spying on us
Margie Gignac | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 9 months AGO
What is the difference between the NSA capturing phone numbers and your smartphone tracking you at the mall or grocery store? Not much.
Even if you are not talking to anyone and your phone is on, corporate marketeers are “spying” on your shopping habits. MAC (media access control) knows how long you linger in the accessories aisle, shoe department, checkout line or whether you stop in front of a window display or pass it by. I wonder if you are being tracked in the restroom?
We have given up much privacy by using our computers and our smartphones. There are surveillance cameras in stores, at intersections and atop buildings. I am more afraid of the market men than of the NSA.
May I remind Mike Donohue (letter, Feb. 21), that the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001 which led to this “spying on our own citizens” was enacted by Congress during George W. Bush’s administration and was active by Oct. 26, 2001, a mere 45 days after Sept. 11, 2001!
See the government printed booklet: Legislative History — H.R. 3162, Congressional Record, Vol.147 (2001). Also noted: The bill was considered by and passed the House on Oct. 23 and 24, and was considered and passed in the Senate on Oct. 25.
Gignac is a resident of Kalispell
ARTICLES BY MARGIE GIGNAC
Republican convention rife with inaccuracies and lies
I admit I am not surprised, just once again disappointed by the Daily Inter Lake’s blatant support of all things Republican or right-wing. The latest example is last Sunday’s editorial on the Republican convention. The convention was rife with speeches filled with inaccuracies, exaggerations and lies: Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s speech perhaps the most notable. Was it too difficult to do a little research to write an informative and valuable editorial or is providing a bit of professional journalism just too daunting for the Inter Lake?
Lindeen is doing a great job
My partner and I went to the dinner and film presentation of “Gold Diggers” this past Thursday evening sponsored by Monica Lindeen and staff of the office of securities and insurance. It was a good dinner and movie until it was sandbagged by folks representing Derek Skees. He is running opposite Lindeen for State Auditor.
Montana needs to repeal the death penalty
It was disappointing to hear that the Montana House Judiciary Committee voted 11-9 to table House Bill 370, which would have replaced the death penalty with life without the possibility of parole.