Release of privacy information

[ultrarunner]

What you folks need to be asking yourself is what companies out there are NOT disclosing the release of your "phone book" information.

JetBlue just came clean. But you can bet you buttt that other folks are in bed with big brother, and they are watching.

 

[typhoonpilot]

That is kind of a pet peeve of mine. Don't you just hate it when you buy something at a store and they ask for your name, phone number, zip code, etc. ? I feel like saying, " none of your fu^^ing business ", but I usually just politely decline to give that information. Then the clerk starts in on how it helps them to offer special deals or some other non-sensical reason.

I prefer to pay cash and keep a low profile. The unfortunate thing is we are trapped in todays modern society of electronic convenience.

Does anyone remember the short lived TV show Max Headroom ? I thought it was classic. The big TV empires had taken over control of the world and if you didn' have a TV on in your house then you were breaking the law. There were a group of people, known as " blanks " who violated the law and tried to stay out of the system.

To be a blank in today's society you wouldn't be able to own a car, a house, a boat. You couldn't have a bank account, a credit card, an internet connection, a job that required you to fill out an application or receive a pay check. In short, it would be very very difficult.

So we give up our privacy for convenience. The question is, how much do you want to give up ? and where does it end ?


Typhoonpilot

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

Strongly speculate whenever you give out your big brother SSN it is subject to sharing from other businesses and/or government. I have also heard that companies and government can get by without a SSN. All they need is a correct name and DOB and they can back track the SSN.
I maintain your credit card number is nothing more than a disguised SSN. Businesses and guberment love it because it leaves a trail. Your cell phone and computer leave a nice trail as well. Some, if not all, medical insurance companies use your SSN as your medical ID. Then when you get a prescription filled at Walgreen's et.al., they now have your number.
This past April the guberment annointed itself access to your medical and pharmacy records all in the name of protecting us from terrorism.
It would probably be hard to go back and figure out who has passed along private information since so many people have access to it. In a warped way, think the guberment almost wants to see identity abuses so they can come up with a "solution" such as bar coding people and installing computer chips/ID cards in everyone.
I agree with Typhoon try to utilize cash as much as possible. In the future cash will probably be "outlawed". The banks will love it because it means less overhead. Businesses will love it because self checkout will be the norm and they won't need people to handle transactions. Guberment will love it because everything can be traced. Power and control of the masses. Hitler was born too soon.

 

[WrightAvia]

Release of privacy information
What you folks need to be asking yourself is what companies out there are NOT disclosing the release of your "phone book" information.

JetBlue just came clean. But you can bet you buttt that other folks are in bed with big brother, and they are watching.

What...are you like Timothy McVeigh or something?