Expressing Opinions

There is more information being gathered about you than you think. Do you have privacy concerns? I know most people will say they do not have anything to hide, but do want all of your personal information to be out there? Ladies do you want that creepy guy at work or someone you met to be able to locate where you live?

In a CNET News article on security: The Internet–a private eye’s best friend

“Dominos has built the biggest consumer database in America,” and the U.S. Marshall’s Service, the New York Police Department and collection agencies are using it to track people down, Rambam said.

Marketing databases with vast amounts of personal records are being purchased by the government, he said. At the same time, individuals have less power to learn what information is being gathered on them and how it is being used, because private entities are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, he added.

And marketing databases will sell this information to anyone who has the money to pay for the service.
I don’t have anything to hide, but I also enjoy a certain amount of privacy. I pay cash, do not participate in customer surveys or give out my phone number when asked by a cashier, this is just a few things I do to lower my digital footprint.

Any time a person asks you for information you should be suspicious. No I am not paranoid, just aware and sometimes suspicious. I believe my digital footprint should be worth something and until they start paying me for it I am going to leave as little info as I can behind for them to use.

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