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| Authored by: LocoYokel on Thursday, October 04 2012 @ 01:05 PM EDT |
your data
This statement is completely
backwards. It is NOT "your" data, it is their data "ABOUT" you, therefore you
have no right to restrict their collection of it or subsequent use of it in any
way. Just ask any corporation and they will tell you this is
so./sarcasm
The only way to change that will be through legislative action
and the adoption of EU style privacy laws. Good luck with that happening with
the bribery lobbying system in DC. ---
Political
correctness is an effort to abrogate the First
Amendment under the assumption that there exists a right to
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 10:44 PM EDT |
You do not own information about you that is collected by other parties. You
can only control your reputation by your actions. Gossip and online data
collections systems will fly.
You can try to control the use of information about you through contract law.
But using legislation to control the distribution of information about you
collected by other people is unconstitutional. Its is protected first amendment
speech. You are trying to create privacy rights that do not exist. You are
inviting government in through the back door to take your Internet freedoms
away.
It is possible, technologically speaking, to engage in commerce online without
disclosing personal information. You can use third party agents so that you
never interact directly with the vendors that collect the information so there
is no opportunity to share you personal data with them.
There are now encrypted portals to the internet that hide your computer from the
websites you are visiting. Scouring your system of cookies removes most of the
local data from your browsing history.
The thing is that most people are lazy. Vigilance is the cost of freedom but
they want the freedom without having to work for it. The world doesn't work
that way. The way of freedom is to find and implement a solution ourselves.
The way of the law is the lazy way that leads to one compromise after another
until we have nothing left that we can call our own.
Have you thought about the consequences of not allowing data collection? People
work hard to improve their credit scores which are based what the world sees as
their personal histories.
You have the right to keep private what you do in private. What you do in
public is a matter of the public record. The Internet is not a private place,
it is a public place. Browsing a public website is no different than walking
around a shopping mall. Merchants have the right to notice what interests you
and to make offers to you based on their observations. If you do not like it
then stay off the Internet and go live in a cave.
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