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awemawson:
"Maybe in the not too distant future they'll be using driving data and facebook friends to generate credit ratings."
Are you sure that they are not already . . . . . (OK I'm paranoid !)
mattinker:
I use facebook, but I don't have any information that I care about on it! I didn't think of it before I joined Facebook, but I thin it would be a good idea to have an entirely fictive facebook, with nothing but bogus information and a "disposable" email adress!
Regards, Matthew.
Joules:
LOL this is one of the things Facebook is trying to tackle in their new terms and conditions, which I found unaceptable and deleted my fake account and bugged out of Facebook.
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: awemawson on December 16, 2014, 12:02:35 PM ---"Maybe in the not too distant future they'll be using driving data and facebook friends to generate credit ratings."
Are you sure that they are not already . . . . . (OK I'm paranoid !)
--- End quote ---
Alot of the tracking and profiling happening now seems to be just for the sake of targeting advertisements at you at least. But even that can get spooky. Google mail in (I think) 2004 introduced the idea of scanning your email contents for keywords to target ads, which was legally dubious due to American wire tapping laws. Especially since people not signed up for Gmail would still be sending emails to people using the service. Of course they got away with it and it's now common practice.
Plus there's saving search histories, which are accessible by the police if needs be. I remember a good few years ago some huge database of AOL searches got leaked, along with the account numbers for who was searching. No way to link it to real people but there was alot of humour to be derived from some of the bizarre stuff people searched for.
I still sometimes hear people bemoan CCTV in public places, as if they're going to pay someone to sit in a security room and track you going food shopping. But not many people seem to complain about all the automatic tracking that happens every day. I guess you trade your privacy for access to various online services, and i'm more than happy trading my privacy for stuff like Youtube!
vtsteam:
I use Vimeo for posting videos.
Viewing Youtube videos doesn't require logging into a Google account, so that's acceptable to me. I block Google scripts (running behind the scenes on a huge number of websites -- even on some shopping cart check-outs) and all the other similar spam info collectors, like doubleclick, etc.
Running the NoScript add-on for Firefox is a real eye-opener. It's amazing the number of scripts that run on your computer by just visiting ordinary websites these days.
My wife's computer was recently slowing down so much on Youtube that the video wouldn't run, the fan would go into high speed mode, and the panel showed a tremendous use of resources, and the computer would nearly lock up.
I checked NoScript and it showed 16 different tracking scripts running from different outfits on that one YouTube page. She had inadvertently allowed those scripts to run (NoScript normally does not, but allows you to run scripts temporarily, or permanently. She'd hit permanently by accident).
Once I disallowed those scripts, Youtube videos ran well again and the computer stopped locking up.
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