What if the story You tell all your friends are being recorded, to be viewed later by authorities trying to catch you in a lie?
This is hardly a dystopian futuristic Big Brother. It is today. It was a Facebook, YouTube, and a million-user forum page where people feel oddly compelled to spill their guts and where, increasingly, the police and insurance investigators that tuning auto.
Take the prosecution of juveniles, which would have been Canada felt that the page for BMW fans would be a safe place to crow about his sleek BMW M5 up to 87 mph in a residential neighborhood. American readers don’t seem to find too cool tip police behavior, which uses a post to start the investigation. 19-Year-old charged with dangerous driving and lost his license for six months.
“People do stupid things and then brag about them in a way that is quite common actually just proved indeed they are stupid,” said Frank Scafidi, spokesman for the national insurance Crime Bureau, a nonprofit that works with law enforcement to investigate insurance fraud. “Some of these cases that just makes it very easy for investigators because of what the suspect-brag about their activities.”
And therein lies the divide: a lot of that share their online exploits do not consider themselves to be stupid; they assumed their posts are private, viewable by friends or their followers believe share their values.