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In my experience, you will enjoy life more if you think along the lines of "what's the worst that could happen?" Otherwise there's too many things to worry abou
by jfoster 13y ago
In my experience, you will enjoy life more if you think along the lines of "what's the worst that could happen?" Otherwise there's too many things to worry about or be unhappy about.
Amazon might even knowingly share some of your shopping habits with some organization you don't want them to, but what's the worst that could happen? Is it worse than the effort you'd put into ensuring that doesn't happen?
- siddboots 13y agoI'm sorry, but I just don't agree. You are advising me to be complacent, and I prefer not to be that way. You are also understating this specific issue by describing the data as "shopping habits".
- e12e 13y agoIf you can't imagine anything bad happening, you lack imagination. Assume Amazon will lose your data. Assume everyone else (facebook, twitter, g+, flickr) will lose your data, give them up -- or that they are already public. Assume someone will correlate all that data, and sell it as a black market service to allow anyone to track you, see if you're in or out of your house, assume your government will put you on a no fly list if you're buying books on military tactics, left/right wing political opinion, assume your government will become oppressive in 15 years and mark up all your kids for "special attention" based on your shopping habits today etc etc... See also: "The Right to Privacy by Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37368/37368-h/37368-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37368/37368-h/37368-h.htm