Lots has been written about the problems we all suffer if we use the internet….the tracking of our visits, etc….
If you are worried then you need to read this article I found….
Here are some mildly terrifying things I learned when I recently did an online privacy checkup: Google was sharing my creditworthiness with third parties. If you want Target to stop sharing your information with marketers, you have to call them. And, my favorite: If you would like Hearst, the publishing giant, to stop sharing your physical mailing address with third parties, you have to mail a physical letter with your request to the company’s lawyers.
Cool cool cool.
I was inspired by this story my colleague Kashmir Hill wrote this month about the company Sift, which collects your consumer data and analyzes then scores your transactions.
Me?
I do not care that they track me. I do no business on-line that could be used against me…..I am an old radical so I am use to watching what I do or say for the government is listening. (COINTELPRO).
Bernie is doing what all politicians do….promise.
Vowing to take on the telecom giants that have monopolized the web for private profit, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday unveiled a $150 billion plan to make the internet a public utility, break up and tightly regulate corporate behemoths like Verizon and AT&T, and provide high-speed broadband for everyone in the United States.
“It is outrageous that across the country millions of Americans and so many of our communities do not have access to affordable high-speed internet,” Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement. “Access to the internet is a necessity in today’s economy, and it should be available for all.”
Sanders vowed that, if elected president in 2020, he will ensure that every American household has affordable and high-speed internet by the end of his first term.
I like the idea….but this is a non-starter…..big business will, never allow such a move.
Just thought you might like to know.
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Can’t go along with Bernie’s ideas on the internet set out above.
I like the idea of free broadband….but that is not happening for there is no profit in it….chuq
Thank you for another very informative posting, Chuq! Hope you have a beautiful holiday season. Honestly, behind all that scoring are people dont want the masses to use their brains. 🙂 There is also no need giving people less money. Better is to control how the are using their money, and they are never far away from debits. 😉 Best wishes for your start into a fabulous 2020! Michael
Thanx Michael and my your season be as joyous….chuq
Thank you Chuq. Best wishes to you too. Michael
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Like you, I couldn’t care less about being ‘tracked’. I am too old to worry. I am waiting for the day when it becomes official knowledge that ‘Alexa’ is constantly listening to private conversations, even when you think it is switched off. Buy one of those things at your peril.
Best wishes, Pete.
All those things are not safe in my opinion….chuq