Beware! Big Brother Web is really watching you...

Part One:
If you think the oppressive hand of "Big Brother" is the only threat to personal privacy in today's digital society, think again.
Our camera-phone toting friends and total strangers in the online universe can be just as responsible for the further erosion of the truly private life as the corporations and various governmental agencies that keep tabs on citizens in the infamous phrase of "national security" and product sales, warned federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart of Canada.
"It's not just Big Brother who's watching you in the Orwellian dystopia," Stoddart said in an interview.
:We're all "little brothers". We're all fascinated with the gadgets that allow you to do this."
The pervasive presence of technology and its unprecedented capacity to surreptitiously track the lives of others, is one of the issues that were addressed at a major international conference that was hosted by Stoddart in Montreal last month.
The conference drew well over a thousand public and private sector privacy and surveillance experts to peer into the unknown but planned out future where tiny unobtrusive cameras, radio-chips, global positioning satellites and online data mining is changing the way our societies operate.
The US Homelands Security Secretary Micheal Chertoff headlined a series of high-profile experts who discussed a wide range of privacy issues, including the collecting of personal information under the guise of "fighting terrorism", the increasing use of computer chips in all sorts of house-hold and clothing items, appliances, and the online safety of children.
With continued advances in technologies, critics are voicing their concerns, as well as, those like you care about. to the risks to personal privacy posed by governments no fly-lists, employers that track their emplyees by GPS and hidden cameras, and data mining that allows companies to target ads to individuals on the basis of their shopping habits.
Stoddart also said that people who complain about these watchful eyes of government agencies and corporations should first take a long look in a mirror. She is perfectly correct.
That's because technology and the Internet are turning ordinary citizens into spies who can and do post , ever increasingly, pictures of the neighbour's yards and inside their homes online.
Even social networking sites , especially those like Facebook, or the dating sites, intended to let people meet people, or tell others what they're up to, can and is corrupted by unwanted circulation or/ and malicious postings...as like copying someone's face to transfer unto a porn site orgy scene...
"We're all participating in the surveillance society," Stoddart noted, adding that "knowledge gives us power".
She also noted that more people are living alone and thus turn to technological gadgets to satysfy a craving for simple human contact.
"There's fewer and fewer of us that live together," She said, "This gives us untrammellted liberty and perhaps a good dose of loneliness and we're reaching out to contact other people through technology.
Although new technologies bring vast potential for benefit---protecting public safety, for instance, or curing a desease, there is also a very dark side that cannot be ignored.
"We all have a role in it, we all have to be conscious of what our choices are." Stoddart emphatically said.
More on this meeting later.