Posted on 03/17/2015 8:48:06 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
It is nearly impossible to participate in today’s society without sharing some of who you are with someone you don’t know. We used to dole out our personal information in drips, mostly to those who were close to us. As our tools for managing personal information (including facts previously considered private) improved, we started making deals for our data.
Marketers promised to pony up good money for our locations and our buying behavior (and more), and we said OK! Now, every click, every like, every share, every post, every shopping cart (full or abandoned), every heartbeat is tracked by someone, somewhere. Usually, now, that tracker is a faceless someone who is scooping up the data in order to understand us better and sell us more stuff.
On the other hand, we like all that stuff. We like our wearables and our Instagram pages, our Nest thermostats, our GPS, and our one-click Amazon Prime accounts. And we like having some minimal connection to those we know and love. Why not? Without really thinking about it, we’ve made a tradeoff giving away data for service, for easy connections and in a way that limits our out-of-pocket expenses.
The ease with which generally unwitting consumers make those data-for-access trades has been changing as personal data violations (via hacks or leaks) hit the news and we learn that the NSA has been sucking up more info than we thought. People’s privacy and security issues are going to be debated for years to come. This is territory is just now being explored. In a globally connected world, how can rules about something as nebulous and personal as notions of privacy be agreed upon by so many different economies, technology platforms and cultures?
The reality is that the train has already left the station.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Garbage in, garbage out.
I don’t know, I’m pretty private.
Of course, I don’t have my face buried in a screen every waking second and I do not type on a gadget for every single event that happens every second of every day.
I’m pretty private.
How to remain private::::
Step 1. Don’t give out private information.
That’s it.
As if we have a choice.
All electronic/digitized information is swept up by the NSA. Emails, texts, social media posts, online purchases and much more. What the NSA thinks it can't get with ease it merely hacks into our computers and servers to obtain.
Cops search through peoples' trash, your financial and telephone/cell records are readily available to law enforcement, and every piece of U.S. mail is photographed. All without warrants, all with the blessing of our courts.
Services like Yahoo! mail, Gmail and Facebook exist for free not because these corporations are being nice but because they use all that information - no matter how private you think it is - to data mine.
Privacy does not exist anymore. Not only do the Republicrats not care, they fully facilitated its death and continue to do so.
Anyone care to see the mole on my hairy white?
I haven’t put a valid SS# on my medical forms in 20 years.
I haven’t put a valid SS# on my medical forms in 20 years.
> I haven’t put a valid SS# on my medical forms in 20 years.
Neither you or most Mexicans...
^ of the illegal variety
lol
No $hip, I went to get a hair cut and they wanted my phone number and full name. I said I just want my hair cut, why the inquisition? The poor girl didn’t know what to say, “they just want us to put it in the computer”. Rather then making an issue with someone who had no control, I made up a name and number and got my hair cut.
I blew up when an idiot did the same thing when taking my son in for a haircut. She tried to tell me they couldn’t cut an elementary aged child’s hair without my phone number.
Didn’t want to insult the legal Mexican who earned their way and pay taxes. I have a great amount of respect for their work ethic and the way they take care of their families...: )
And they link all this data together, track your location with cell phone, log where you shop, who you visit, what you buy, etc. They can track you with cell phone, credit card, licenses plate readers (toll roads & post offices) late model car connectivity, RFID transmitters in cards, your computer usage, etc. All these are linked together to build a profile.
It’s easy to screw with the system with a little creativity. The marketing bots think I’m a 95-year-old Burmese lesbian....
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