privacy lol
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- ukit
After all the talk about online privacy these days, it was kind of funny to stumble across this article from a couple years about all the points of data Google collects, whether you opt in or not.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-e…
Let's hope they "don't be evil."
- lukus_W0
There will definitely be _some_ 'evil' people working for Google. I think it goes without saying, that some people will have ideas which don't correspond with what's best for the general population. Take any group of 1000 people, and you'd probably find the same.
Ideally safe-guards need to be put in place; but regulation rarely works when it's internally managed.
- raf0
- whatsup0
Secrets will remain behind walls in order to make money
- It's really difficult to take Holocaust denial seriously, particularly when the one denying it can't even spell.Continuity
- ukit0
- sofas0
https://www.privacyinternational…
Key Points
* Privacy International conducted fieldwork in India and Kenya to understand how developments in the financial technology sector, known as ‘fintech’, affect the privacy of citizens.
*Our research finds there has been a massive increase in the quantity and scope of consumer information gathered by financial institutions. This expansion has been largely unchecked, particularly in developing countries, while serving the interests of companies and industries, which are mostly located in developed countries.
* These new sources of information are increasingly being used to inform financial decisions about people. Seemingly irrelevant data, such as text messages and call logs, are now being considered to justify a consumer’s suitability for various financial products, including loans.
* If current trends continue, PI believes it will become increasingly difficult — and eventually impossible — for people to use financial services without having to allow access to the most intimate information about themselves.
- deathboy-2
if u look at the fine line info of many online service such as waveapps that imports data for accounting purposes you see a the third party (cant recall the name in wave apps a big player in others) sells the info to financial firms. You spend more money on starbucks in a month they algo buy more starbucks shares. People give up data for convenience by the truck loads because they dont understand it or its large effects or what they give away
- i'm not sure that will change things, what is the point in paying an app not to sell my data if the OS or other apps sell it anyway?sofas
- also who is to say they don't sell it even if you paid them?sofas
- waiting for apps that will pay you to use them...they will sell your data, take a cut, but give you some of the earnings back.uan
- that's not much of a privacy issue, that's just marketing and investingmonospaced