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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6172975" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>Yup. </p><p></p><p>There's the obvious things I can't have floating out there like my account numbers</p><p></p><p>There's my personal business that I don't care to share with neighbors, let alone the world</p><p></p><p>There's "harmless" data I'm dropping off with out realizing that technology can now collect and make surprising deductions from. </p><p></p><p>Like DNA samples, fingerprints on discard pop cans, cameras catching my car going to places that have always been there, but only now can something sneaky or useful come of it.</p><p></p><p>There's machine processes that do legitimate work on my and others data that then are vulnerable to criminal attack.</p><p></p><p>There's machine processes that offer genuine services for hosting my data, and are inherently reading it to do things on my behalf (like showing me targeted ads)</p><p></p><p>there's machine processes that parse my data that I willingly gave it to then perform statistics on that deduce surprising things that I hadn't thought I opted into.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now bring in that Snowden guy, who was an IT worker, who inherently had "need to know" access on the back-end to NSA data (meaning the agents may have been locked to certain data by need, but an IT guy kind of needs access to everything, even though he's not reading it per se). There's your risk factor, somebody HAS to have access to everything to keep the server running. Now in his case, he apparently didn't like how the data was being used, and made a big deal about it (not commenting on the details of his case).</p><p></p><p>Now bring in that kid in England who got banned by the game shops. His name was out there for anybody to know what he did and who he was. He voluntarily gave away his privacy, and yet, when the news was reported, others were trying to protect his privacy by saying his name shouldn't be disclosed.</p><p></p><p>To sum up, nobody really knows that the heck privacy is. it's a magic word that means whatever you didn't want to happen after the cat was let out of the bag.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6172975, member: 8835"] Yup. There's the obvious things I can't have floating out there like my account numbers There's my personal business that I don't care to share with neighbors, let alone the world There's "harmless" data I'm dropping off with out realizing that technology can now collect and make surprising deductions from. Like DNA samples, fingerprints on discard pop cans, cameras catching my car going to places that have always been there, but only now can something sneaky or useful come of it. There's machine processes that do legitimate work on my and others data that then are vulnerable to criminal attack. There's machine processes that offer genuine services for hosting my data, and are inherently reading it to do things on my behalf (like showing me targeted ads) there's machine processes that parse my data that I willingly gave it to then perform statistics on that deduce surprising things that I hadn't thought I opted into. Now bring in that Snowden guy, who was an IT worker, who inherently had "need to know" access on the back-end to NSA data (meaning the agents may have been locked to certain data by need, but an IT guy kind of needs access to everything, even though he's not reading it per se). There's your risk factor, somebody HAS to have access to everything to keep the server running. Now in his case, he apparently didn't like how the data was being used, and made a big deal about it (not commenting on the details of his case). Now bring in that kid in England who got banned by the game shops. His name was out there for anybody to know what he did and who he was. He voluntarily gave away his privacy, and yet, when the news was reported, others were trying to protect his privacy by saying his name shouldn't be disclosed. To sum up, nobody really knows that the heck privacy is. it's a magic word that means whatever you didn't want to happen after the cat was let out of the bag. [/QUOTE]
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