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It is love it or leave it
How many people read the agreement when they download an App?
How many people read the fine print when they play games on Facebook or on a App?
How many people click on the link to post a quiz results on Facebook?
Do you know that you have probably agree to share your personal information and friends list with the app maker? The exact same stuff that everyone is up in arms about with Facebook.
Any browser that you use is collecting data on you.
I joke that when click on an “I Accept” box that I just gave away my first born baby… but it is no joke! You just did.. you agreed to give them all your data on your family. They know the name of your spouse, the know the names of your children, they know their dates of birth.
How many of you list your true date of birth or where you live on Facebook (I listed my date of birth on Facebook as 1901… it took a while but I got an email from Facebook says that we don’t believe you are 116 year old)?
How many of you use Incognito when you search online? You do know that they track you when you visit online retailers, that is why you start getting ads for what you were just looking for.
Many time we don’t want to opt-out of cookies or other tracking devices because they make it easier for us to surf the web.
Look at the very bottom of my blog and you will see,
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It is love it or leave it
How many people read the agreement when they download an App?
How many people read the fine print when they play games on Facebook or on a App?
How many people click on the link to post a quiz results on Facebook?
Do you know that you have probably agree to share your personal information and friends list with the app maker? The exact same stuff that everyone is up in arms about with Facebook.
It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on youFolks if you use a computer or a smartphone they are gathering data about you!
CNN
By Bruce Schneier
March 26, 2018
(CNN)In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. A lot, it turns out. It collects data from our posts, our likes, our photos, things we type and delete without posting, and things we do while not on Facebook and even when we're offline. It buys data about us from others. And it can infer even more: our sexual orientation, political beliefs, relationship status, drug use, and other personality traits -- even if we didn't take the personality test that Cambridge Analytica developed.
But for every article about Facebook's creepy stalker behavior, thousands of other companies are breathing a collective sigh of relief that it's Facebook and not them in the spotlight. Because while Facebook is one of the biggest players in this space, there are thousands of other companies that spy on and manipulate us for profit.
Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it "surveillance capitalism." And as creepy as Facebook is turning out to be, the entire industry is far creepier. It has existed in secret far too long, and it's up to lawmakers to force these companies into the public spotlight, where we can all decide if this is how we want society to operate and -- if not -- what to do about it.
There are 2,500 to 4,000 data brokers in the United States whose business is buying and selling our personal data. Last year, Equifax was in the news when hackers stole personal information on 150 million people, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers.
Any browser that you use is collecting data on you.
I joke that when click on an “I Accept” box that I just gave away my first born baby… but it is no joke! You just did.. you agreed to give them all your data on your family. They know the name of your spouse, the know the names of your children, they know their dates of birth.
How many of you list your true date of birth or where you live on Facebook (I listed my date of birth on Facebook as 1901… it took a while but I got an email from Facebook says that we don’t believe you are 116 year old)?
How many of you use Incognito when you search online? You do know that they track you when you visit online retailers, that is why you start getting ads for what you were just looking for.
Many time we don’t want to opt-out of cookies or other tracking devices because they make it easier for us to surf the web.
Look at the very bottom of my blog and you will see,
EU Readers Law NotificationThat is because in Europe they ban most of the stuff that Congress has allowed here.
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In the wake of this scandal, even Mark Zuckerberg said that his industry probably should be regulated, although he's certainly not wishing for the sorts of comprehensive regulation the GDPR is bringing to Europe.It is not going to happen here. If you are complaining about the NRA well the internet companies are lobbying just as hard to block any laws like that here.
He's right. Surveillance capitalism has operated without constraints for far too long. And advances in both big data analysis and artificial intelligence will make tomorrow's applications far creepier than today's. Regulation is the only answer.
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