Monday, March 10, 2014

CBS 60 Minutes- Privacy, Schmivacy.

The Data Brokers: Selling your personal information

|Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight.

See the full segment: CBS 60 Minutes Stream

A friend watched this last night, and posted a response on Facebook: 

"Did anyone watch the 60 Minutes show this evening? Interesting story, it was about how Data brokers steal all your information from sites you visit, order things online, face book, dating sites, reading the news even. They sell all your information to companies to make new commercials on TV for more ways for you to buy more stuff from them and then some. Just thought I would share this info with everyone, and I do not care if those brokers read this either, because I feel they are invading our privacy already, which is so unfair. Oh, and stealing info on your cell phones also, even know every where you go as a GPS and by you swiping your debt cards as well to steal info. We should eventually go back to old ways, writing letters and mail them, talk on house phones and other ways."

 Give Us This Day Yer Mutha's Rant: I watched it, and wasn't even a little bit surprised. It will only get worse, as generations continue to grow into the culture of "no privacy whatsoever" and consider it the norm.
Private Sign, Do Not Read
People read it anyway.
Those that find the systematic invasion of privacy wrong will be (are?) considered the oddballs. The corporations will find new and even more heartless ways to exploit this "new normal", and become
even richer and more powerful. The average worker-bee will make minimum wage, and won't even think there's anything wrong with it. Because the corporations told them it was OK, and that's what "normal" is. I found the very end of the segment the most interesting and foreboding: The two largest corporate "harvesters" of private info (Google & Facebook) don't sell the info to other companies the way most harvesters do. They keep it for themselves...

 US Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said it well, recently calling this issue "The dark underside of American life."  BTW, he's not running for reelection, so he now has the freedom to say what he really thinks.  So what do YOU think?  Is this a real problem?  Is it just paranoia?  What will this lead to, in real terms for real people?  COMMENT BELOW!

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  1. AnonymousMarch 11, 2014 at 9:51 PM

    I found it interesting, I knew some of it was going on, but did not know about the cell phones being used as a GPS to find where you're going all the time. I am glad I do not have that type of phone, it is a simple phone for just texting and calling, mostly for emergencies and keeping track of my son. My mind is always thinking of ways what can be done, not just this, but other things, but do not know how to make it reality without being arrested or something, because of still worrying about my son, he comes first in my life. Maybe the hippie simple life is best, because of living simply with growing own food, live with others to make it run smoothly and other things, I hope everyone can understand what I am trying to state here, because at times I am lost of words to explain, myself. This is Lori Vision.

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    1. Mutha BobMarch 12, 2014 at 7:29 AM

      I hear you loud and clear, Lori. Unfortunately, I've reached the conclusion that resistance is futile. It's hard to see the negative results of this crap in day-to-day life right now, so most people find it all acceptable. Give it five or ten years; society will then be seeing the negative results in their daily lives, but will STILL find it acceptable, because they grew up with it and it's all they know.

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