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Damn right, I don't understand why people are going all up in arms for privacy on the Internet, this is _Internet_, you know, the place where everything is publ
by pothibo 15y ago
Damn right, I don't understand why people are going all up in arms for privacy on the Internet, this is _Internet_, you know, the place where everything is public.
If you want to show your life on the Internet, you have to expect some people taking interest in it, whatever the intention.
What I can't understand is how we are all upset about Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and our privacy when we have NEVER given a damn about how credit card companies profile their client.
And credit card companies are so much worse because they first sell you credit card (via flat fee or interest rates) and then profile you and use that information to sell you even more stuff.
- kokey 15y agoI actually find it a bit funny when people put up personal data for the sake of sharing it with others over a public network, then go on complaining about privacy.
- cbr 15y agoThese users want to be able to share their information easily with a restricted set of people they know. I don't see what's funny about them complaining about privacy when their information is shared with people they did not intend it to be shared with. (I'm a heavy social network user, but I mark everything public and don't trust or expect facebook or google to keep anything private)
- DanBC 15y agoPeople tend not to complain about the stuff they've chosen to put online. People are complaining about the huge quantities of data that Facebook holds about you, with no option to stop them gathering or processing it, when they keep stuff that you've asked them to delete, and when they gather data about people who are not even signed in to Fb.
- nikcub 15y ago> this is _Internet_, you know, the place where everything is public. what is the username and password to your online banking account?
- pothibo 15y agoYou are obviously missing the point but let me humor you: When you access a bank you are publicly trading the information between you and the bank. That means that if somebody on your LAN sniff your cookies (and SSL wouldn't be used) you could use their account on their bank website. So yeah, bank info is public as well. You cannot use the internet and expect things to be completely private like you can't go in a bar get naked in the middle of the dance floor and expect nobody to notice it. (Ok, this is far fetched but still.. I thought this was funny :P)
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- cbs 15y agoThat means that if somebody on your LAN sniff your cookies (and SSL wouldn't be used) you could use their account on their bank website. But I use SSL when I connect to facebook. And its not the data facebook collects as it files over the wire that is being called into question here, it is the actions of Facebook once they have the data. The point the parent post was driving at is: Is it OK for the bank to do anything they want with my personal data just because they (like facebook) happen to operate on the internet?
- pothibo 15y agoAnd my answer to that question is, if you give information about yourself to any service you have to expect them to do something eventually with it. Even if it's yours, it becomes theirs as well as soon as you upload it to the 3rd party.