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YOUR PRIVACY IS NO LONGER PRIVATE ANY WHERE YOU GO

By
Real Estate Broker/Owner with people first...then business Ran Right Realty 636943 licensed to thrill

I was amazed when cell phones came out. I am still in awe and laugh a little when I see movies where they have to use the land-lines. Who would have known that a movie would be dated like that? Now, the phones come with cameras and everyone is on-board...

ITS FUN AND BECOMING MAINSTREAM

If I am having an extraordinary meal, I snap it and email it to the chosen few. If I see a landmark or sight worth passing on...CLICK and off it goes. I find that having this offers one a different mentality as they travel about. Now, you can share instantly about anything anywhere

NOW...THE DARK AND QUESTIONABLE SIDE

Ever since the Rodney King beating that was captured on film, police have become very self-conscious of all they do. Today, almost everyone is being filmed or photoed wherever you go. You may or may not ever know about too. But is happening and thriving

YOUR ON WEB CAMS AND DON'T KNOW IT

People, businesses, and government, can consult their web cams to trace people that go back days or even months. Storing the data digitally using cloud techniques makes it easy and practical to do. The recordings continue 24/7 and are placed everywhere

YOU CANT SEE THE EQUIPMENT

Be advised that they have cameras that are as small as the head of a drop pin. They can be placed in bathrooms, bedrooms, dressing rooms, hotels and even your own home and other locations unknown to anyone accept the one who put it there. Public places, restaurants, amusement parks etc. would not know if someone else put something there to retrieve later on either

YOU ARE FAMOUS OVERSEAS

There is a thriving market for filming people in compromising situations especially over seas. People caught in the act (use your own imagination)  here do not know that they are famous in Europe and may never find out. These films of people were in demand years ago in Las Vegas at the annual sex convention show

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

What to do about all this? Who can say. But one thing remains obvious. Our privacy is no longer ours but remains anyone's who can capture the moment...

Kathryn Maguire
GreatNorfolkHomes.com (757) 560-0881 - Chesapeake, VA
Serving Chesapeake, Norfolk, VA Beach

OK, now I am officially creeped out.  I will never view a public "facility" the same!

Mar 17, 2012 02:15 AM
Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

Kathryn...I will admit it is a stark reality but consider that now you are ahead of the curve

Mar 17, 2012 02:28 AM
Robert Bob Gilbert
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Anderson Properties - Katy, TX
Your Katy TX ( West of Houston) Real Estate Expert

Hi Richie,

 

I am not too worried about all this stuff as if someone is watching me they will be bored to tears. My comment to whoever is doing the watching of me or anyone else is "get a real job".

Have a good weekend. Italian ice is excellent and like you  I grew up eating it on a regular basis.

Mar 17, 2012 03:23 AM
Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

Hello Bob....I hear you on filming. They may not be after you as a subject as much as what you are doing. Voyeurism is a perverted billion dollar business. When Michael Jackson was accused of inappropriate behavior with children, they took photos of parts of his body. Serious money were offered for those photos...Now, I cannot even speculate what they are worth. The sickness of society goes on.

 

My friend, I grew up in a Jewish Italian neighborhood. I know what good pizza, bread, sauces and deserts should taste like. Most Americans are being fooled about this subject too. On the ices, they used to be served out in water cooler type cups. The taste and flavor remain extraordinary and I would always have more than one flavor..one right after the other too. The texture, the sight, the smell....Bob, life can be that simple and rewarding too...best to you Bob

Mar 17, 2012 03:37 AM
Eric Michael
Remerica Integrity, Realtors®, Northville, MI - Livonia, MI
Metro Detroit Real Estate Professional 734.564.1519

I don't think I've ever had an Italian ice. I hear about them every now and then, but never tasted one. Maybe one day.

PS. Richie, hope everything is going well, my friend.

Mar 17, 2012 06:03 AM
Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

Hello Eric...Please look into Italian Ice before you leave the planet. Also, there are the authentic types that I grew up with that serve bits of fruit in them...most delicious I might add. Keep eyes open here...

 

Eric...things are going very well my dear man. I think of you and the good fight you carry on making sure you and your family remains safe and sound. I know the welfare of your business associates and clients are not far behind that either..I support you to hit the heights and do great things...

I am finishing my third book and my forth is almost finished too...Everything continues to be an extra ordinary adventure of the highest kind...I give him thanks for everything.....I thank you for asking Eric...

Mar 17, 2012 07:41 AM
Ginny Gorman
RI Real Estate Services ~ 401-529-7849~ RI Waterfront Real Estate - North Kingstown, RI
Homes for Sale in Southern RI and beyond

It is very creepy...friends of mine had a daughter working in this restaurant where the creepy owner had put hidden cameras in the bathroom...you just don't know at all!

Mar 17, 2012 09:15 AM
Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

Ginny girl...Many years ago, I had a woman come out of a rest room in a restaurant I managed screaming uncontrollably that she was being watched through the air vents in the ceiling. I had to calm her down, close the rest room off, get a ladder and get up there close to see what she was talking about...Lights reflecting off the metal. Ginny, what if it wasn't....?

Mar 17, 2012 10:26 AM