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Along the same lines of what you're suggesting would be posting publicly-available information of other business and political leaders to give them a more perso
by percept 16y ago
Along the same lines of what you're suggesting would be posting publicly-available information of other business and political leaders to give them a more personal understanding of this issue.
However, the problem is that business and political leaders are already accustomed to a higher level of exposure and scrutiny due to the nature of the positions they hold ("Welcome to our world!").
Another option might be to gain grassroots support by building a "shock" site to show the average person just how much personal information about them is available online. This could be a mashup of several social media/other sites, and could direct people to some form of action after revealing their data.
People interested in fighting the erosion of privacy could also support existing organizations focused on privacy issues.
- GrandMasterBirt 16y ago+1 on the shock site. And I suggest getting some brains on it and making intelligent reporting of data. Dig up other email addresses, get all places where they lived, jobs they had, car they have color, kid's names, spouse, etc etc etc. And all with a caption "this is just what a few of us hackers came up with without any funding and a few months, imagine what facebook or large companies spending billions on this could figure out!" Afterwards we take the shock site and sell the mined information for money, because we can, because were building it (duh). Oh and for added shock, add things like where they have been, where they eat, their preferred foods, where they usually go from what time to what time, when their apartment is usually unattended, etc.