Today when I purchased Sunday nation from a vendor who has been in bus dunes for 40 years I remembered that in the US not long ago, as I did here we would have bought services as important to us as mail and news. Now, with new media such as FB or others however, we get all those services for free—and we pay with our personal data, which is spliced and diced and bought and sold. Those who aren’t bothered by that exchange should keep in mind that our data is used not just for advertisements. It has also been used to charge people different prices based on their personal information. It has been used to provide different search results to different people based on their political interests. It has been used by the government to identify possible criminal and terrorist suspects. If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:07:32 +0000
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