Your digital images?

[CobyRupert]

Not to worry, if you have any questions about the correspondence of any individual, just contact the NSA, as they are the repository of ever bit of everything any person has ever written or said.

Unfortunately, as you noted, this possibility is a joke under our current system where the intelligence agencies (aka secret police) are unaccountable to anybody, including the citizens of this country. This has also been true in other countries in the past (e.g. the East Germany Stasi) , but maybe someday, when our Berlin Wall comes down, we will have access, like the Germans, to those records and files collected on us.

It would be nice to hear the last phone conversations with my departed Dad, or with that friend from long ago.

One can only a dream of a world where American citizens have the same rights as former East Germans, or a government that is beholden to its citizens.

 

[jymbee]

Dan,

You brought up a number of excellent points.

Regarding:

The other problem is the shear volume of images in the digital age. It is so cheap to take a photo and keep it that one can easily take 1,000s or 10,000s of images on a vacation. You did not do this when an image was costing you $.5-1 in film, developing and printing.

How true! Back in the days of slide film I can remember making sure to take those last few shots-- usually of something pretty mundane-- before turning in a roll of slide film given you were charged the same per roll whether there were 3 or 36 images on the it.

Print developing on the other hand, were typically charged by the print so one was apt to be more careful with those final shots.

Digital cameras today are like pneumatic air guns. Used to be you'd take your hammer and pound in the "right" number of nails to get the job done. Not too few, not too many. Along comes the nail gun and too often now you get BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM... "Ah, that otta' hold them two 2x4s together!" :laughing:

 

[SPIKER]

There are some NEW levels of tech that are fit for many of the younger generation who like to take pics of dinner plate a post it on-line, once it is seen it is gone forever... Forget what they call it but I guess it is popular for Sexting photos of ones parts to some GF or BF... :/ lol


Mark

 

[Buggs67]

I'd like to see pics of my grand-dad. But not many pics taken in 1900. My father liked slides. He took hundreds. Then he remarried and she has all OUR family pics after he died. Ironic, no. He was trying to preserve our youth, and then turned it over to a stranger. I've started sending pics of my siblings and their children to them so they can preserve them. Now the pics are in 2-10 places.

And we have an external auto-back-up hard drive.

 

[k0ua]

There are some NEW levels of tech that are fit for many of the younger generation who like to take pics of dinner plate a post it on-line, once it is seen it is gone forever... Forget what they call it but I guess it is popular for Sexting photos of ones parts to some GF or BF... :/ lol


Mark

You are thinking of "snapchat" but you need to read this:

Snapchat Doesn't Delete Your Private Pictures - Business Insider

Plus don't forget the NSA copy on their servers... There forever!:laughing:

 

[grsthegreat]

i have multiple failsafes......i store the same pics on several computers...one in shop and rest in house. Plus i have a removable 1tb drive thats stored in gun safe (fireproof)

if all are taken out....well who needs pictures