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Avoid Google Surveillance and Protect Your Personal Data

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:33

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I no sooner post my piece titled, CLEARING YOUR BROWSER CACHE IS A FELONY, that I came across THIS nightmare! I am as guilty as the next person with my addiction to technology, but know that it comes with a stiff price, and be willing to pay it one day if/when the the time comes. Two years ago I posted that the NSA PAYS YOUR FAVORITE TECH COMPANIES MILLIONS TO GET FULL ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION. At the time, the article reported:

“Top secret documents obtained by the Washington Post show that nearly all the top internet services — Microsoft Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple, Youtube and PalTalk — are all sharing ALL your user communications with the federal government. Dropbox is reportedly “coming soon.”

I feel called to warn people, because the time will come when the ability to do so will no longer be possible. During a state of MARTIAL LAW, don’t expect communications like cell phones or the internet, and you can be SURE that MARTIAL LAW is coming. I’ve covered the topic of MARTIAL LAW ad nauseam, so I won’t do it again here. The point is I am WELL aware that the bigger I get, the more of a target I become. If I could turn off my love of country, and take myself out of the Paul Revere role I am in, I would… but I can’t. I WILL NOT sit by and do nothing. Thank you to those who send emails letting me know you’ve begun living differently because of things you read from me. THAT is why I do this.

If you read the links to the story on Google and the NSA I embedded in the article below, one of them brings to light that Zuckerberg is a Rockefeller. That should come as NO Surprise. It goes a long way to explaining their relationship to Google, the NSA, and the police state we are entering. If you haven’t already, check out WHAT HAS FACEBOOK DONE NOW, AND HOW DO I PROTECT MYSELF? Different versions of that post have been shared over 500,000x. It’s worth reading.

EDWARD SNOWDEN SAID IT BEST:

“If you don’t fear illegal searches because you have nothing to hide, is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say!”

(NaturalNews) It all seemed rather innocent in the beginning. It certainly seemed convenient, and still is – maybe more so than ever, to be truthful. But if you haven’t noticed, slowly and gradually, during the past 17 years since its inception, Google has evolved from being a company which once merely provided Internet users with a free search engine and email to becoming an all-encompassing entity that monitors nearly everything you do.

AND NOT ONLY DOES GOOGLE SNOOP ON YOU, IT TAKES THE PERSONAL INFORMATION IT HAS COLLECTED AND SELLS IT TO CORPORATIONS. GOOGLE ALSO PROVIDES THAT INFORMATION TO INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES LIKE THE NSA!

FOR THOSE WITH A GENUINE THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE… IF THESE DON’T GRIP YOU, NOTHING WILL:

HOW THE CIA MADE GOOGLE – PART I

WHY GOOGLE MADE THE NSA – PART II

THERE IS NOTHING CONSPIRACY ABOUT IT! READ IT! THOSE WHO PRACTICE CONTEMPT PRIOR TO INVESTIGATION AND JUDGE AN ARTICLE BY THE TITLE ARE FOOLS.

A recent article penned by Derek Scally of The Irish Times explores the extent of Google’s tentacles into our private lives and offers some very useful advice on how to “de-Google” your life.

And why should you de-Google your life if you have “nothing to hide”?

From Scally’s article, which is titled “De-Google your life: it’s worth the hassle if you value your privacy”:

“For privacy campaigner Glenn Greenwald, the man who revealed Snowden’s mass surveillance claims against the National Security Agency, the most common response he hears on the road is what he calls the ‘I have nothing to hide’ argument. To this he has a simple answer.

‘Whenever I hear someone say “I have nothing to hide,” ‘ said Mr Greenwald in Berlin last year, ‘I always ask that person for their email password so I can read their messages. No one has ever taken me up on the offer.’ “

HOW TO DE-GOOGLE YOUR LIFE!

LOOK FOR STORAGE ALTERNATIVES – Scally recommends not putting “all your digital eggs” in one basket. For example, he urges people to explore alternatives for storing emails, photos and cloud content. European-based services are preferable due to EU laws which protect privacy. German-based mailbox.org is one example of an alternative mail service that does not sell or give your data to corporate interests.

CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEARCH - Whenever you can, use an alternative search engine that doesn’t track your searches, such as DuckDuckGo.com or GoodGopher.com (GoodGopher is a new search engine described as “the world’s first privacy-protecting search engine that bans corporate propaganda and government disinfo”).

BLOCK COOKIES - We’re told that cookies “improve the user experience,” but they also track everything you do online. Install a tracking blocker, such as Ghostery or DoNotTrackMe, into your browser. You can also download the privacyfix.com service from AVG, which helps you click the right privacy settings on your computer and the Internet services you currently use.

FIND AN ALTERNATIVE TO Gmail – Scally admits that it’s “difficult” to give up Gmail and its 15GB of “free” storage, but he points out that even though you theoretically retain intellectual property rights to the content stored on Google, you also give the company a: “worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify . . . communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.” Better to use a service such as the above-mentioned mailbox.org or Posteo. Another alternative is to encrypt your emails using PGP.

STOP USING GOOGLE AND APPLE CLOUD SERVICES - Keeping your calendars and contacts synced on multiple devices without using the Google or Apple cloud services can also be difficult because, as Scally notes: The “big players deliberately tinker with file standards for their calendar and address-book offerings to make migration possible and keep you inside their golden cage.” This “devious and effective practice” is perhaps not easy to sidestep, but it’s probably worth the hassle. And as Scally says, “if you clear this hurdle, you’re home free.”

SMARTPHONE ALTERNATIVES – It’s possible to wipe your Android phone and install CyanogenMod, which uses the same OS, only without Google’s presence. However, installing it requires some technical skills. Another alternative is to invest in a Jolla smartphone. Jolla is a Finnish-made smartphone that uses an OS with “no corporate tentacles.” A team of Nokia designers left the company to introduce this product, which aside from offering privacy also has some very innovative features.

Source:

http://www.irishtimes.com

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