A bit heavy maybe, but....I went in to PC world the other day to buy a new printer, when I got to the checkout I was asked for my address and postcode. I then remembered that I had been through this before with PC World. I asked the guy on the checkout why he needed my address and postcode, he said "it's for warranty puposes". I told him that I didn't want to give hime it because I didn't want junk mail, but he was unable to put the printer through the till without it. So I gave him a made up address and postcode. There is absolutely no need for them to have my name and address unless I want/need them to have it. You get funny looks from the other people behind you, like your some kind of wierdo who's just being a pain in the ass. It amazes me just how much of our information is out in the public or at least comercial domain already. Then I read a bit of this report: http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documen...eport_2006.pdf I know that I will sound like some crazy conspiracy theorist, but that's not the case. I am currently studying human rights law, and in particular stuff surrounding a right to privacy - you would be absolutely amazed what is going on with your personal information, and what could be done with it in the future. Don't tell the feckers anything! "Like the border, the shopping centre and school, the wider city of 2016 is at once more under surveillance yet sometimes less obviously so at an immediate glance. Security has been aestheticised; designed into many of the buildings and surveillance is built into the infrastructure and architecture – it is ubiquitous but has disappeared. Many important state buildings which had been surrounded by
concrete barricades after 2001, now appear open once again, but are instead
protected by a variety of sensors linked to impenetrable automated barricades that
sink into the ground when not immediately needed."
The above government reports predictions for 2016