"Rook" has some thoughts on privacy.
Verizon Announces Privacy Updates | TheBlaze.com
Verizon informed me that it will now start selling the data of the websites I visit, the apps and device features I use, my device location, demographic information gleaned from other companies, as well as the amount of time I use certain products.
* Reviewing 185 largest websites, 61 percent release usernames.
* Previous study found 56 percent of 120 websites reviewed released some sort of information.
* Usernames, thanks to social networks, give people easy access to full names, photo and other information.
* Just by clicking on a Home Depot ad, 13 different sites received user first name and email address.
* Expert says this study isn’t indicative of lack of anonymity on the web, but identifying technical issues.
* Viewing a local ad on the Home Depot website sent the user’s first name and email address to 13 companies.
* Entering the wrong password on the Wall Street Journal website sent the user’s email address to 7 companies. [...]We identified the Wall Street Journal leak in a different browsing session from the one reported in the spreadsheet – and by accident. In the interest of consistency – we did not test logging out and logging back in on other sites, nor logging in with the wrong password – we decided to discuss the leak in our post but not our spreadsheet.
* Changing user settings on the video sharing site Metacafe sent first name, last name, birthday, email address, physical address, and phone numbers to 2 companies.
* Signing up on the NBC website sent the user’s email address to 7 companies.
* Signing up on Weather Underground sent the user’s email address to 22 companies.
* The mandatory mailing list page during CNBC signup sent the user’s email address to 2 companies.
* Clicking the validation link in the Reuters signup email sent the user’s email address to 5 companies.
* Interacting with Bleacher Report sent the user’s first and last names to 15 companies.
* Interacting with classmates.com sent the user’s first and last names to 22 companies.
Privacy is an illusion. Ask any PI.
Posted by: Jack | October 21, 2011 at 07:41 PM
We're gradually losing our liberty, our freedom, our right to bear arms, our free enterprise system, our right to practice our religious beliefs openly, our right to democracy, our right to an unbiased media, our right of free speech (that right now belongs totally to the left), only to mention a few. Soooo why shouldn't we also lose our privacy?
Posted by: Ernie | October 22, 2011 at 04:18 PM
We're progressively dropping our independence, our independence, our right to carry hands, our completely free business system, our right to exercise our faith freely, our right to democracy, our right to an fair advertising, our right of independence of expression (that right now connected completely to the left), only post a few. So why shouldn't we also drop our privacy
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