According to an OpEd piece in the New York Times and frankly many other news articles our privacy is
being compromised and we don’t even know it. Google, Facebook and other widely visited Internet
companies collect information about us and sell it to other companies without us
being aware of it. Data brokers, like Acxiom,
have highly sophisticated software tools that run blindly as we surf the web to
allow them to gain access to our personal information. They know everything
about us; our health, food preferences, sexual orientation, finances, you name
it and they probably already know it. This industry is currently unregulated despite
efforts by President Obama to pass legislation to put some controls in place. Data
brokers have become pirate like in their efforts, taking what is not there's and doing what they they want with it. It is imperative
that we spread the word to bring the much needed urgency to this issue. We need to stand
together to make sure our rights and privacy are not being violated and demand legislation that helps protect the private citizen.
It's sad that we no longer have privacy and even inside the house. where I've been told that the new TVs have cameras in them being able to see what your doing. I think the government is taking it too far.
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ReplyDeletei truly agree with you this privacy thing is so dangerous. we can even do anything it's so not cool sometimes i think our life is in danger because of this crazy technology thing. Also we cant leave with out technology but as the same time lot crazy thing going on what scary thing.
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