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Why do you even want to keep the NSA away? I am more worried about companies such as Intelius than the NSA. Private companies such as Intelius are posting my p
by petilon 13y ago
Why do you even want to keep the NSA away? I am more worried about companies such as Intelius than the NSA.
Private companies such as Intelius are posting my personal information on the internet.
Anyone who knows my real name can search the internet and find out where I work, my home address, my spouse's name, my home phone number and my age. I didn't put any of this information on the internet, in fact I don't even have a facebook account. Private companies collected and aggregated this information and put it on the internet. Some of the information came from public records (for example, home address from property ownership records), but some was very private (such as my home phone number, which is not even in my name and rarely given out). This is a huge violation of privacy and I have no way of stopping it. Anyone that wants to harm me can find out where I live with a few clicks of the mouse.
I am not worried about the government spying on me. I am very worried about these for-profit businesses spying on me and outing my information on the internet. Why isn't arstechnica writing stories about that instead?
- superuser2 13y ago>I am not worried about the government spying on me. I am very worried about these for-profit businesses spying on me and outing my information on the internet. Why isn't arstechnica writing stories about that instead? You have the right to a private conversation. You don't have the right to a secret existence. Directory information (like a phone number) is not that private because there's nothing anyone can really do with it besides call you. We don't really recognize a right not to be called. Your phone records, however, lead to information about your friends, lovers, and business dealings. Exposure of that information is a much bigger deal to most people than the mere fact that they exist.