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To: MarchonDC09122009

Thanks for the heads up!


10 posted on 09/22/2015 5:44:46 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote
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To: WakeUpAndVote

You’re welcome.
Unfortunately, the current data privacy crisis is one of our own making.
Data brokers have no decency.
Lawmakers on both aisles accepting Millions from high tech donors, have sold us all out.
There’s not much momentum to fight this at the moment.
EPIC.org, and EFF.org are doing their best.
Phone and email offending companies letting them know you’re cancelling subscription to their offending service or product. That’s all we can practically do.

Offending high tech billionaires told us how much they regard your privacy:

“We seem to be following the advice of Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, who in 1999 said, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” And the observation by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: “The privacy you’re concerned about is largely an illusion. All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.”

These comments could be dismissed as technology executives trying to minimize complaints about technology. But whatever we say about how much we value privacy, a close look at our actual behavior suggests we have gotten over it.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121962391804567765


24 posted on 09/22/2015 9:40:50 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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