techdirt.com — It's no secret that people rarely read privacy policies or assume that if there is a privacy policy, it means their data is safe. However, the latest bit of research points out that privacy policy or not, people have no clue if a site is going to spam them if they give it their email info. Perhaps the reason is that people just don't care any more.
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Closed AccountOct 18, 2006
I didn't know Digg added a "no s**t" category.
xsformeOct 18, 2006
"get yourself a hotmail account and sign up for stuff on the net using that account.."Seriously, who has got the time to be login into hotmail? I rather use something like spamgourmet.com.
yogurthOct 18, 2006
Use Dogpile as default engine, it will redirect searches from google, msn, yahoo ...and several more through it and You can set Your cookie to clean up auto after closing web page. That is probably the best way to stay out of Searh trackings.
dmadzakOct 18, 2006
True if you get spam for related services. Like if you go to a financial site and then get spam for people selling you CDs, brokerage accounts, etc. but I have created a gmail account forgot about it and have logged in for the first time at a later point and seen like 10 spam messages. It looks like the spammers randomly hit email addresses to find new one as well as hitting established lists. This is getting freaking rediculous, even if you are careful you still lose.So I got spam on a new account, from a gmail invitation I sent to myself and never gave the email to anyone so this isn't a reliable indicator that your email address was sold by a company.
caleb4mjOct 18, 2006
Show of hands, who actually believed they were safe online before reading the article?
fallibledragonOct 19, 2006
spamassassin to filter mail,privoxy (and maybe tor) to filter the web.nuff said.