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Curious, given how strongly you feel about the commercial use of personally identifiable information (pii) - how do you feel about the collection, use, sharing,

• _Understated_ 10y ago
  I don't agree with Governments doing it en-mass (I have no problem with targetted surveillance based on reasonable suspicion) and I have signed various petitions to that effect over the years. The only real option, apart from revolution, is to move to another country that doesn't do it but I don't think there is one now. Of bigger concern is that I am in the minority: Most of my circle believe in the terrorist/paedo rhetoric the Government spins and think its justifiable. As for the commercial stuff, my only problem is if I can't avoid it or I really have to go out of my way to avoid it but so far my tinfoil hat hasn't been breached, e.g. my wife has various loyalty cards but I don't want to carry one... I have that choice with commercial entities I'm in the UK btw.
  • nxzero 10y ago
    Thanks, don't like to assume things, and never really thought about if there are some people that're anti-commercial pii collection, but pro gov collection; as we both would likely agree, there probably are somewhere. As for me, I give out less (real) pii than 99.999% of the world, in part because even as a kid I knew how easy it was to find and use info. I don't know what the best way forward is to the topic, but the current situation seems problematic to me. Only real solution long-term is a positive & significant economic culture that values privacy; my opinion.