 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | reply to silentlooker
Re: We knew this already... said by silentlooker:good luck tracking me. Most of the time i posted by borrowing wifi. Usernames are on most boards are different. In reality tracking me is hard. In reality, you're not that interesting.      (j/k)
Seriously, though, few of us are really "worth" tracking (and I don't include myself among them). Unfortunately, the cost to track us and store information about us is dropping like a rock and approaches zero relatively quickly. Even though I could find out that you were searching about how to make a Mentos and Diet Coke bomb when you were a teenager, would that even be relevant?
I really hope Karl is wrong here. If he's not, we're going to have to rethink what we do with this storehouse of "knowledge." (scare quotes intended)
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| I think it all becomes immeasurably less spooky if what's being collected is entirely transparent, consumers are given the tools they need to manage their online identities, and we have effective regulatory protections in place for abuse.
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Lion84
join:2007-08-10
Marietta, GA | reply to funchords
What is more of a problem is if someone could come along and "create" data that appears "official" and then that could be used against you. Similar to a TSA agent slipping a little "something" into a bag just to make someone's day interesting (which if memory serves actually happened at the Philadelphia airport earlier this year). |
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said by Karl Bode: and we have effective regulatory protections in place for abuse. I hope this was sarcasm at its finest, otherwise I'd have to take issue with this statement!
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