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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
January 29, 2014
So I told my wife that every time she plays Candy Crush someone in the US and UK is gathering your data. It all started with a game called Angry Birds, I said, so there is probably a file on you in MI5.
My wife, being utterly logical said, what possible information could they get from an apps they haven’t already got from my embarkation card every time we fly somewhere.
I said, don’t be so blasé, the whole world is up in arms and really, we don’t want a spy in the sky watching over us.
Why would it, she said, the camera would go to sleep, we lead such boring lives.
That, I said, is not the point, the point is that when you hit a candy the CIA and all the other alphabets in the ‘hush hush’ soup get all the gen on us.
Like we need a new bed and the wiring is very old now and it is about time we bought a dining table set.
More, I said ominously, much more.
Like what, you don’t make enough money, we have the smallest car in the world, we are so well married we do not even have the energy to argue, you think the spooks have nothing better to do.
It’s the principle of the thing, I said, I don’t like being spied upon, especially if I am on a leaky app and don’t know it but the intelligence people know where I am at any given time.
And that is exciting, she said, raising her eyebrows, like that is exxxx-citing, knowing where you are, either at the supermarket or the pharmacy, where else do you go and why would anyone bother about it?
If they know where we are they can follow us.
Follow you…to what, the pharmacy, to buy throat lozenges, they don’t have to follow you, I can tell them that.
You just don’t understand, do you, I yelled, you know what I am an angry bird and I am going to crush that candy, I don’t want anyone tracking me and you should do the same.
And she said shhhh, I am getting a lifeline.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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