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Do you really want them to be able sell information about you like "Heavy home alcohol purchaser" to whoever pays them?

by hughw 6y ago

gverrilla 6y ago
they can already. but as you can see, it's more often than not wrong information. There's so much scam the scammers scam themselves. Also, I couldn't care less, honestly. If I were a "Heavy home alcohol purchaser", perhaps I'd like to receive latest news related to that and promotions? I don't think privacy is the matter here at all. I think it's a problem with how we perceive our economy, which molds our entire life and death. And I get just honestly astonished by the stupidity reigning all over. Seeing how much attention a lot of groups devote to such concerns is only a leftover from the fact that real problems are not being addressed. Our focus as a collective is devoted to making money. People do everything for it. And who could blame them? If they don't have money they won't have a house, food, medical treatment, transportation, peace of mind, shelter from storms and cold, books, etc etc etc in most cases. At the same time, to make money they have to spend money. It's indeed maddening.
- hughw 6y ago
  A prospective employer could buy the information about your alcohol use and decide not to hire you. An opponent in a lawsuit could use it to show you have a pattern of heavy alcohol use that caused you to be negligent. When you run for office in 10 years the other party will run attack ads against you using the information. Need I go on?
  - gverrilla 6y ago
    I can be reselling alcohol? I maybe run a dorm. Or a private club. Or I buy a lot of beer for my trendy startup employee. Or I'm a religioous fundamentalist buying alcohol to toss it in bulk into the ocean because alcohol is Satan. Etc. This data ain't reliable at all. Also, people are already giving this info for free most of the time on social media. And it's not even a matter of fighting Google, or facebook, or amazon. This is going on all over the internet, and if they take down facebook something new will come up. If anything, I think employment system, judicial system, political system and others will have to develop and fundamentally change. It's not like 'privacy' is the only matter the whole social complex is facing, at all. Heavy alcohol abuse is not a crime, it's connected to serious collective mental health issues. This is one of the problems that deserve real attention, for instance.

Do you really want them to be able sell information about you like "Heavy home alcohol purchaser" to whoever pays them?

by hughw 6y ago

Do you really want them to be able sell information about you like "Heavy home alcohol purchaser" to whoever pays them?

they can already. but as you can see, it's more often than not wrong information. There's so much scam the scammers scam themselves. Also, I couldn't care less, honestly. If I were a "Heavy home alcohol purchaser", perhaps I'd like to receive latest news related to that and promotions? I don't think privacy is the matter here at all. I think it's a problem with how we perceive our economy, which molds our entire life and death. And I get just honestly astonished by the stupidity reigning all over. Seeing how much attention a lot of groups devote to such concerns is only a leftover from the fact that real problems are not being addressed. Our focus as a collective is devoted to making money. People do everything for it. And who could blame them? If they don't have money they won't have a house, food, medical treatment, transportation, peace of mind, shelter from storms and cold, books, etc etc etc in most cases. At the same time, to make money they have to spend money. It's indeed maddening.

hughw 6y ago
A prospective employer could buy the information about your alcohol use and decide not to hire you. An opponent in a lawsuit could use it to show you have a pattern of heavy alcohol use that caused you to be negligent. When you run for office in 10 years the other party will run attack ads against you using the information. Need I go on?
- gverrilla 6y ago
  I can be reselling alcohol? I maybe run a dorm. Or a private club. Or I buy a lot of beer for my trendy startup employee. Or I'm a religioous fundamentalist buying alcohol to toss it in bulk into the ocean because alcohol is Satan. Etc. This data ain't reliable at all. Also, people are already giving this info for free most of the time on social media. And it's not even a matter of fighting Google, or facebook, or amazon. This is going on all over the internet, and if they take down facebook something new will come up. If anything, I think employment system, judicial system, political system and others will have to develop and fundamentally change. It's not like 'privacy' is the only matter the whole social complex is facing, at all. Heavy alcohol abuse is not a crime, it's connected to serious collective mental health issues. This is one of the problems that deserve real attention, for instance.