Aw crap. I thought this was you. Now I'll have to keep looking.
Posted on 03/10/2011 4:01:59 PM PST by LucyT
Three hours after I gave my name and e-mail address to Michael Fertik, the CEO of Reputation.com, he called me back and read my Social Security number to me.
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In the past few months, I have been told many more-interesting facts about myself than my Social Security number.
I've gathered a bit of the vast amount of data that's being collected both online and off by companies in stealth — taken from the websites I look at, the stuff I buy, my Facebook photos, my warranty cards, my customer-reward cards, the songs I listen to online, surveys I was guilted into filling out and magazines I subscribe to.
Google's Ads Preferences believes I'm . . . . . . . ."
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Same here! I guess when you work with the technology, you know what it's capable of. I have tied my 'real name' to NOTHING online. I've always remained 'unplugged' when it comes to social networking sites and all the rest. I can type my name into some of the various 'people finding' search engines, and there are NO results that lead to me. On the other hand, my wife is into the whole social networking thing, and I CAN be found though searching for HER, so I've been compromised anyway, on some level....
I must be the only 20-something year-old I know who does not have a Facebook. Do people think I’m weird? Sure, they do. But every time a new Facebook privacy scandal hits the news I am so glad I am not them. Funny, the generation that claims to be so against “conformity” cannot seem to tolerate a little bit of independent thought. My friends even thought about setting up a Facebook account for me!
Was this website a liberal website? If so, I’ve been there too and the people on that site can get really bi*chy.
No, it has to do with racing games (I think it is based in Europe).
to which I replied.. “Go get your manager, right now.”
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Then what happened?
Understood. My comment was mostly aimed at those who say “If you let your name get on the internet, then you are an idiot.”
You know those little pop up surverys? I take them.....and not one bit of the information I provide is true. lol
I also give fake info for darn near everything I have to fill out online.
Um, no. The information about my addresses, present and past, and the places I donate money to did not come from FaceBook. FaceBook has my name and email address, nothing else. Since no information is posted on FaceBook and since I don't actually use it, there is no way all the info about me that is currently on the web came from FaceBook.
Aw crap. I thought this was you. Now I'll have to keep looking.
That is a freaking excellent idea.
Of course, people can do that individually, on their own.
The manager promptly rang me up without swiping my card. I expressed my disgust at the whole system. I have not bought alcohol from them since but I assume they still have a magnetic swipe policy. I also assume that 99.9999999% of the lemmings gleefully hand over their identities. I didn’t try to get the kid fired or anything like that, he wasn’t rude. But anyone who thinks they don’t store your information is an absolute idiot.
I know they already have a lot of info with my credit card, but having the driver’s license info gives them the full monty.
It is outright illegal for these companies to traffic in your social security number. Line them up against the wall and begin the trial phase now.
Oh wait, they bought our legislature 45 years ago when they first started getting blowback over marketing scams.
Weird. How do they know what your real name actually is? People have some pretty strange names.
For years and years any suggestion of using computerized data for physician’s offices was met with a quick, vocal and winning protest about privacy issues. I have been amazed at the ease and lack of protest that has accompanied this current extortion( physicians will pay a penalty if medical records are not kept digitally). I am not a conspiracy freak or a black helicopter believer but be aware that the ultimate goal is to have real time oversight of your medical care and you can not do that without a central data bank. Data security on that massive level is and will be a joke.
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