Posted by Dave on 9/8/2009, 8:29 pm
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Darned if you do, and darned if you don't: If you go online at all, there just ain't no way to be truly anonymous; they can still hunt you down. Data privacy laws simply set us up for being identified for commercial or criminal activity.
Greed is what drives these violations of privacy. Advertizing companies want to tailor the ads they send you so that you will have a 'meaningful' web experience. They're looking out for you!!! And then there are criminal uses.
What do we do? Pray and hope to not be noticed. Maybe I'm uninteresting enough, or poor enough, that none of them want to fool with me. Maybe it's just not worth their while to try and find me.
I don't see anything else other than government regulation to even put a crimp in these privacy violations, although that's like setting the fox to guard the chickens. Or maybe someone will set the hackers against the hackers and they will remotely destroy each others' computers?
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas
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