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- IIECONII, on 11/29/2008, -2/+20"1984 wasn't meant to be an instruction manual"
- selfprodigy, on 11/28/2008, -2/+11Do they know what i want on my tombstone?
Pepperoni - NixiePixel, on 11/29/2008, -1/+7This makes me want to read the book. Examples like those given in the article are troublesome, and more common than you would think. For instance, MasterCard's quickest growing business segment is selling their transaction data to clients. Every single transaction for each customer can be evaluated, links between who has bought what and at what time...and they're making money hand over fist doing so.
- heucuva, on 11/30/2008, -0/+4They do, now.
- Travelsonic, on 11/30/2008, -0/+3Since when was MY private life YOUR business?
- inactive, on 11/30/2008, -1/+5Companies sell your data
http://www.abika.com
Chatrooms like yahoo ( and maybe digg ) sell their data to companies like abika.
All your base is belong to them. - 2oonhed, on 11/30/2008, -1/+4It just goes to show that a single piece of information, like a birthday, can serve to uniquely identify you.
Not to mention that a birthday +name, +mothers maiden name or address can lead to getting your identity stolen.
Which is why I always use a fake birthday whenever I have to register at some stupid website......and no, I do not use my mothers real maiden name for a back up, I use a fake.
Never miss an opportunity to feed the the machine misleading or false personal information. It's none of their business where I was born, who my mother is, or how old I am.
This is a big problem in the job market right now. Data miners are posting juicy looking jobs that require an website registration, a resume & application to get a referral.......and then nothing happens because the job never really existed. Most of these types hide their phone numbers and address making them easy to spot.
Rule of thumb : A legitimate business does not need to hide its name, phone number, or business office address. - Shazbuckle, on 11/30/2008, -2/+5I have a tinfoil hat. I advise you get one too.
- Vexion, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2They already did it in the book "Super Crunchers" by Ian Ayres. The book describes how data mining is changing decisions today, including some really far-out stuff. A company has designed a program which uses statistical inference to tell how well a movie will do at the box office just based on certain elements of the script, for example.
- virtualonliner, on 11/30/2008, -2/+4All your base are belong to us.
- minorgods, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2I worked in direct advertising. I once got a list of eyeglass wearing ford drivers in a city with their leases running out within 6 months and an age over 40.
I also worked for big brother. I pulled a list of blue sedan owning people with criminal backgrounds or gun permits of a specific type living in the same neighborhood as a murder victim.
Its silly for me to see that the same people that bitch about privacy and want to cut off the foot of the latter company are more than happy to print their entire family's medical history on a post card for the promise of a free soap sample. - Kinneas, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2Maybe they will discover we are tired of the B.S.
- djfang, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1It's amazing how others can get your personal information by collecting computer usage data. With mathematical formulas such data can be used to find your gender, age group, ethnicity, etc. Anything is possible but this obviously raises privacy issues. I believe the cons definitely outweigh the pros. Hopefully legislation would be passed to stem such unnecessary prying.
- Travelsonic, on 12/05/2008, -0/+1Yes, what you post isn't anonymous, but that isn't necessarily the focus of the point I made, or the topic at hand.
- inactive, on 11/30/2008, -2/+310 am ME logs on at DIgg.com
11.30 am ME logs in at You Porn.com
11.45 Downloads 4 flv files
11.59 Emails work acquaintance.
12.03 logs on at Americas Army game server 125.121.654.12.1716
3.30 logs into Digg.com....
nothing like routine during a work day.. - craiginct, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Then why don't I get emails selling me stuff I want???
They must not know how to interpret the sites I go to.
Then again how many coupons are there for boobies? - SpacePoet, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Everything you enter onto the internet is recorded and systematically can be used against you. Your Facebook, MySpace, email, forum posts (like this), every sight you visit, every friend you talk to, it is all being recorded. I recently had to get a Bank of America account and in their privacy policy they basically outright tell you, "We will sell any and all spending info on you to the highest bidder." It's the main reasons for their 'keep the change' program where your purchases are rounded up to the next dollar and transferred to your savings account. To get you to use it they match it 100% for the first 3 months and lower there after - which on the surface is a good deal. This is all a huge scam to get you to use that debit card and subsequently have more info on you to sell. Beware, this is the last frontier in control and this is only the beginning to technological enslavement.
- humpsalot, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1i like where this is going.. carry on
- cutpasterepeat, on 11/30/2008, -1/+1Data miners... Patriot Act... next up A.I.
- mhmdkhamis, on 02/04/2009, -0/+0Never miss an opportunity to feed the the machine misleading or false personal information. It's none of their business where I was born, who my mother is, or how old I am.
http://hotminiclip.com/Miniclip-3-Puzzle-1.html - Kombaiyashii, on 11/30/2008, -2/+2Reminds me of this film I saw last week
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053 ... - otrube, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0Scary to think that from such little information so much can be found out about one's self. And i sure know that I don't want my employer knowing if I am understress by being able to monitor my heart rate and blood pressure.
- Ajzimm3rman, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1huh...
? - TheMachine1, on 11/30/2008, -3/+2If these data miners ever figure out a way to make a profit on unemployed people living in their moms basement I'm in trouble.
- obchunky1, on 11/30/2008, -1/+0It seems to me the most likely application of this data will only be to our benefit. Having products directly advertised to us at our need and convenience seems like a nice deal. Pop-up ads that actually interest me would be better than pop-up ads that don't.
There is the more "1984" side of things though, which is a bit scary, so it needs to be checked out at each new development and turn. - musntSurfatWork, on 11/30/2008, -2/+0some ones and zeroes collected , organised, and magnetically stored.. pour moiii? How Sweet!
Mine this .|. dataminers, if that IS your real name... - monty671, on 11/30/2008, -2/+0The story contains NO details. It is a fluf piece that does not deserve our DIGG
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