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Its not only advertisers buying your data. I had a boss who paid a subscription to a service that monitors as much of your internet activity as possible. He got
by sbhn 8y ago
Its not only advertisers buying your data. I had a boss who paid a subscription to a service that monitors as much of your internet activity as possible. He got alerts everytime i and other colleages did anything public. He bought it cause he was paranoid, or a voyer. Stuff that you do that is public, is more than just a facebook post, it is slso a google+, steam, wordpress, gravatar, linkedin, discuss, readdit, and loads more. The more you can link up a particular person, the more you can track across domains, the more its worth, even to the person being tracked. Think credit scoring companies who sell there tracking back to you and also to banks. Your governments pay billions to security contractors to collect your data.
Newsagencies that suggest your data is only valuable to adveriserz are engaging in distraction.
- TallGuyShort 8y agoOne of the many benefits of a full-time job doing open source development: it has absolutely flooded out everything else about me on the Internet. My Dad used to have a service like this alerting him about anything I did. He turned it off because he got sick of all the notifications about my work. If you Google my name now, it takes until like page 10 before you find anything remotely personal.
- sbhn 8y agoYes, i had a similar perspective, ive also posted a lot of open source and i thought if you are still inclined to be following me with your draw dropped in awe, then youd need to be getting yourself a life. Surely im not that important. But actually, my data and activity genrates enough money amongst those who sell security to the government, that it would contribute a significant part to my weekly wage. If only we knew how much our data was really worth.