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Story: Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux

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Huh!

I can't quite make out if you're being serious, faceteous or ironic, so I'll respond as if you you're serious.

I'm retired so I get free travel within the Oyster Zone, I don't mind my journey's being buried in the records. I will be identifiable but why would anybody bother. I save a lot of money.

My daughter's still at school, she gets a substantial travel benefits, but she is identifiable and, presumably, her journey's are buried in the records too. She has had several unauthorised absences from school. I guess these records know where she went but, for sure, I wouldn't be able to find out from said records. Again, I save a lot of money. No harm done

As of now, I haven't given away any information of any consequence.

However, I will not use store cards, loyalty cards or Nectar cards etc. because they would specifically target and analyse my personal shopping habits and use this information.

I send emails, surf the internet, use the phone, etc.etc., all of which record my activities, the records of which must be retained by law.

And this response can be found by Google within moments of it being posted - really. If you do not believe me, try it for yourself, any phrase from your own post in inverted commas straight away after you have posted .

Of course, I do not support the Big Brother scenario, far from it, but that has much more to do with how the data is managed and used. Unfortunately, we are inexorably moving in that direction. Naturally, we couldn't have big brother withou the data collection, but neither could we have all the other nice things we have come to expect.

The cause to support, therefore, is to have the data used in a way acceptable to the people and to resist the state setting up the science fiction scenarios of all seeing, all knowing, all controlling, and leave us with our freedoms and choices, even sometime to do the wrong thing.

PS. I don't like all the surveillance and speed cameras, but that's another matter which doesn't fit in anywhere in this reponse.

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