At the end of the episode they ominously texted that gathering and storing information as described in the episode was not illegal. Well, their warning didn't work!
This is why I’ve never used my real name on the internet.
I don’t give a rat’s behind if my information is all out there. Because I do not need better credit score, and no one pays my bills except myself, so why should I worry about others?
I have nothing to hide. So I don’t care.
It’s creepy. And annoying.
In France they call it
“Le droit a L’oubli” or The Right to be forgotten.
The right to have negative private info removed from internet searches and other directories.
The law has been worked on since 2010, and is still not fully settled in Europe.
LOL.
It is impossible to delete any of your data form the internet. Once it is out there, it is saved somewhere else besides the obvious places you find it and delete it from. the data has been sold and stolen over and over again. It is like trying to delete your date from somebody else’s Cloud. Good luck with that.
I just accept that privacy is dead, and that all my data is out there somewhere, and I am being tracked 24/7 in real time, my TV is listening to me at home, all my communication is being stored. Welcome to the modern police/surveillance state. The good thing is, I am just one of 350 million people they have to watch out for, so it is sort of the old bear joke where you don’t have to outrun the bear, just your jogging partner. With 350 million people to track, I just have to make sure to keep a lower profile than 50 million other people so they don’t have a reason to bother with me.
I am sure all of my personal data, financial date, medical dates, shopping data, spending data, travel data, food consumption and everything has all been tracked, sold, and stolen many times over. There is no putting that genii back in the bottle. You can bolt the barn doors, but the horses have been gone for decades now.
>>MyLife pulls together vast amounts of public data to create background reports and “reputation scores” on millions of people in the US, all available to those willing to pay for a monthly membership.
What they call a subscription fee is a protection shakedown fee and a way for them to sell information about you to other people.
The only way you can get some of these sites to suppress or delete some information is to pay them. That is a shakedown racket and illegal.
And these sites have fraudulent information. Listing marriages that never happen and arrests that never happened.
At least it was fun to create the image that I am a multi millionaire that owns two Bentleys and that I have 12 kids. BTW my "reputation" score went way up with this.
I recently discovered my daughter’s photo on a MyLife internet connection- I was horrified.
Also posted an FR thread concerning a McAfee technician linking to my computer and opening my BANK ACCOUNT - displaying user name and PASSWORD!!!! Instead of crediting my c.card for a small duplicate subscription he credited $3,100.00. I had my bank handle it - to make sure it was real money.
Tech Geek cleaned my computer - removed McAfee. Changed passwords, cancelled bank cards etc. Cost me money!!!!
Might have to quit using my laptop - too old - not smart;)
Moan and complain all yas want!
ALL my information that is on federal and military records was hacked by the Chinese during Obama’s presidency. ALL my information on Yahoo was hacked during Obama’s stay. ALL my banking information, too, under Obama. So, everything from 1980 till 2015, of any record, personal from high school through Vietnam, the Cold War, federal, state, and private industry, plus anything I ever published for the general public, all hacked.
45 years of information stolen.
Facebook is just as bad or worse. Once you join it, you can never completely rid yourself of it.
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They take voting records and make them available. You can find out anyone’s party, address, and telephone. They show a list of people who are associated with you. They take this from public information. They have present and former addresses. Accuracy doesn’t matter. There is a lot of false information. It’s all there, and there is nothing we can do about it. Staying off the internet won’t help.
We’re in a post privacy world. Have been for about a quarter of a century. Get used to it already.
I just googled my FR name and sent me to my FR about page which has no info save the date I stopped lurking around and signed in - almost 21 years ago. There was nothing else.
Over the past year have witnessed a couple of suicides of people charged with crimes, dv and financial, who suicided after the charges because it went all over the web, and is tied to them forever.
I beleive that this information should not be placed on the web until one is found guilty. It is not right that peole should suffer so from accusaions.
When Big Tech companies claim they don’t sell your information, they LIE.
Plus, when you give ANY personal info to these companies, certain of their employees/ moderators can see and use it for their own purposes, such as harassment of political opponents, without their supervisors necessarily knowing.
A few years ago I used a fake masculine sounding name to sign up on Twitter. (Who cares about blue checks? Not I.)
The fake-name guy immediately & to this day began getting texts on my phone from (perhaps also fake) horny women who claim to have found fake guy’s profile on Pornhub.
The texters always address fake guy by the fake name that I only used on Twitter. That’s how I know Twitter is the source.
I’ve no idea whether there is really a profile on Pornhub— The real me doesn’t want to know & the other guy doesn’t exist.
The texts always contain a clickable link but I never click it. I just delete & block the number of origin, but it’s a spoofed number, so I get more texts.
Yes, look at a product on some internet merchant, and when going to another the product will be featured. At least this is annoying as you know you are being traced. And sites you purchase products from have to know you, including your shipping address. It seems odd that they would pass the info to a competitor! I wonder if using a VPN which would present the same IP address as thousands of other users wouldn’t confuse them?