Of course it could also not work without public scrutiny.

Many things and thoughts need to be nurtured privately before they are ready for the public eye.

No offense meant but I find your attitude rather juvenile.

You should take my 'juvenile' comment as a compliment :)

I wouldn't want a stranger to be able to pull up a picture of me like that simply by searching for my name. Hence I protect my privacy. Guess I am just a bit more conservative that way.

I look much younger in the newer ones. :^)

that only sane and reasonable people would attempt to violate a person's privacy. To say that's not the case is an understatement.

What, for instance, is a woman escaping an abusive or stalking man to do?

I would allow a stalked woman, indeed anyone being stalked, to have one. Or better yet, take away more privacy and provide a 24-hour guard.

Technology has moved to the front lines in the fight against domestic violence.

Advocacy organizations are using increasingly sophisticated high-tech solutions in their efforts to keep victims safe, even as they struggle to keep pace with abusers using technology to control and threaten their victims.

“Worldwide, it’s an epidemic,” says Alexis A. Moore, an abuse survivor and founder of the California-based victim advocacy group Survivors in Action.

“Perpetrators are changing their information and their manoeuvres. Their road map changes by the hour, where our training and education and awareness programs happen on a yearly basis, if that. Laws take years to develop.”

GPS devices on vehicles or cellphones can be used to track a victim’s movement without their knowledge and abusers can hack into their victim’s online accounts to track e-mails or instant-messages, says Cynthia Fraser, a technology safety specialist with the Washington-based National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV).

Advocates first started hearing about high-tech abuse a decade ago, she says, but it’s becoming a bigger problem because the technology is so widely and cheaply available. Even abusers who are not tech-savvy can learn how to stalk their partner with the help of the Internet, Fraser says.

The consequences of leaving a digital trail can be deadly. Fraser recalls one case where an abused woman wrote an e-mail about her plans to leave but didn’t empty her computer trash bin after deleting the message. Her abuser found the message and killed her.
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_{Tolerating prostitution is tolerating abuse and torture of women and children.}

... girlfriend of mine from 15 years ago. Her last name was Meyer and her first name is extremely generic as well. If I just google her name I get 63,500 hits. I really didn't expect to be successful in tracking her down, expecially since Facebook isn't that popular in Germany, and the social network sites that are, put a bit more emphasis on privacy.

Nevertheless I just had to provide one more detail - her degree which was somewhat unusual and I found her right away - including some recent pictures and her current business Telephone number.

Pretty scary.

google-gloating! I like that.

^{"Sí che dal fatto il dir non sia diverso."}

-Dante

eom

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-Dante

They contain everything that Google has minus the redundant crap and places me correctly on the map - yuk.

Nonentities Rule

_{Tolerating prostitution is tolerating abuse and torture of women and children.}

fight it for all I was worth.

^{"Sí che dal fatto il dir non sia diverso."}

-Dante