Apps watching you
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- Boz0
I agree Plash, however if you want all this technology to actually work properly for you, you do kind of have to give it as accurate information as possible, otherwise it becomes quite a bit less useful.
For example.. I always put 1/1 of some year close to my age for information on profiles but then if you need to use those, or my friends want to be reminded to send me best wishes they will send it on a wrong date.
There's tons of stuff like this in the new wave of information.
I really don't have any problems with sharing information about my tastes, ratings and so on to improve services but the issue here is that this information is being SOLD.
We knew this was happening.. everyone saw it.. but nobody made a stink about it.. huge majority of people wants to be a star, wants to post their idiotic thoughts and what they ate in the morning or that they are going for holiday or similar but nobody was worried about privacy..
Now when companies are selling their information or are not legally bound to only use your online habits and usage of a system to improve their own services not to resell that stuff to others, everybody is SHOCKED how everyone knows everything about them.
This is what pisses me off.. people are fucking idiots who don't question or think about anything.. if they thought about what they are supporting or doing and raised a stink BEFORE these issues even arise (and yes that sometimes means sacrificing the coolness factor of a service or a product because they are essentially leading to a bad practice that will get you later), nobody does.
That's why I previously mentioned Apple too.. people are supporting these ass wipes now as they are creating some REALLY bad precedents in business practices and how they control you as consumer and then, when people realize they can't switch to anything else cause they spent tons and tons of cash on content that they can only view on Apple's products and now can't stop giving money to Apple without losing all the money they spent previously, they'll be like "WTF, I can't do this?! Boo Apple! How did this happen! OMG!" but then it's too late, because they were imbeciles to begin with blinded by shininess of Apple's idiotically named products and technologies like "magical", "retina" etc etc.
So I don't really pay attention to anything like this when it comes to privacy. People get what they deserve.. as you said, the only choice now is for you to lie and put in false information to bypass your real information being spread out and that's about it really.
Hopefully I'll make a new startup where you will be able to share your information and likes and dislikes about different things anonymously and I'll make billions, but responsibly :)