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My credit card company can not legally sell my purchasing history to the highest bidder.[1] Google can not tracking my searching if I am connected via a public

by zheng 15y ago

My credit card company can not legally sell my purchasing history to the highest bidder.[1] Google can not tracking my searching if I am connected via a public proxy (very common, in fact) Most people don't have smartphones, and most don't leave the GPS on. I'm willing to guess that taking the union of all of your "small paranoid minorities" gives a pretty large minority, in fact. --- [1] - http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/regpcg.htm http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/regpcg.htm

seabee 15y ago
The carriers can still locate you without GPS using triangulation. But that kind of data requires a court order to access, so not a serious issue. Anecdotally there are lots of people who care about a specific privacy issue based on a personal experience they have had. One shreds everything they have, another uses an unregistered prepaid phone, another refuses to Facebook. But no one person does all of these things. I can't possibly say anything more than human perception of risk is shaped hugely by experience :)