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Re: [Digital BW] If you belong to Yahoo groups please read this

2005-12-10 by scott_now_coming

"It's not the CIA or FBI we ought
to worry most about."

Absolutely. It's not the FEDs that worry me, it's the marketing 
people that scare me.

Scott


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>
> > Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to
> > track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what
> > you're doing and where you are going--similar to
> > cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and every
> > group you visit...
> 
> 
> Google also keeps track of every search you do.  
> 
> These companies appear to be making huge and detailed databases of 
as much
> personal information as possible about everyone.  The apparent 
purpose it to
> target advertising more accurately.  I wonder what else the 
information will
> ultimately be used for.
> 
> It may be that the paranoids got it wrong.  It's not the CIA or FBI 
we ought
> to worry most about.  
> 
> I expect when the public becomes more informed about this the 
inflated real
> estate prices will not be the only bubble that pops.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>

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