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I am fade of up listening to government new policies violating the privacy right of an individual. To catch terrorist, Australian government introduced metadata retention law that violates 23 million Australians privacy. What a shame? Only 0.0006% chances that government may encounter a terrorist, but 100% chances that government employees will enjoy our very private conversation. So, be careful if sending a private pic of yours to your girlfriend or boyfriend, they might see it L.
Do you think that metadata is just little basic information that has nothing to do with your activities, if so, than you are wrong? Metadata is the key to create an exact duplicate profile of yours. Your like or dislikes, political views, taste in food or dressing, even how more private stuff. Privacy is our own responsibility. So, counteract by using VPN: http://www.purevpn.com/order/ and encrypting all your information, hiding it from the government.

Reverting to this thread because of a new post. But harking back, I find Constance's post on March 27 quite disquieting. I am a captive of Disqus because long long ago I wanted to comment on a US list called Truthout (to which I no longer subscribe). I filled in a form for Disqus which included a field for inserting a "nickname". Caught on the hop I quickly invented one, the name of the least-worst of Rome's sorry succession of dictators. When I joined OLO it was through Disqus and I couldn't change to my real name (Dion Giles) as I was told that to do so I'd have to adopt a new email address, which would have meant completely rewriting my address book and notifying everyone on it of my new email address. Forget that for a lark.

But Constance's account of Disqus playing funny fellers with her(?) computer is potentially far more serious. It seems possible that the content of some of Constance's posts may have triggered retaliatory action on behalf of the Yank Neocons. There may (hopefully) be an alternative explanation in view of the subsequent seeming electric shocks. Somehow the mains electric power may have flowed through to the computer because of a fault in the transformer, causing both the disturbance with the logging in and the tingling sensation. Somebody good at that sort of thing could probably nail that down with a multimeter.