If someone secretly installed software on your computer that recorded every single keystroke that you made, would you be alarmed? Of course you would be, and that is essentially what is taking place on more than 400 of the most popular websites on the entire internet. For a long time we have known that nothing that we do on the internet is private, but this new revelation is deeply, deeply disturbing. In my novel entitled The Beginning Of The End, I attempted to portray the “Big Brother” surveillance grid that is constantly evolving all around us, but even I didn’t know that things were quite this bad. According to

an article that was just published by Ars Technica, when you visit the websites that have installed this secret surveillance code, it is like someday is literally “looking over your shoulder”… If you have the uncomfortable sense someone is looking over your shoulder as you surf the Web, you’re not being paranoid. A new study finds hundreds of sites—including microsoft.com, adobe.com, and godaddy.com—employ scripts that record visitors’ keystrokes, mouse movements and scrolling behavior in real time, even before the input is submitted or is later deleted.  MORE


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