Digital BW, The Print

At 8:43 AM -0800 12/10/05, Paul Roark wrote:

>These companies appear to be making huge and detailed databases of as much
>personal information as possible about everyone.  The apparent purpose is to
>target advertising more accurately.  I wonder what else the information will
>ultimately be used for.

Scares the hell out of me too.

This systemic invasion of privacy is like something out of a Phillip 
K. Dick novel:

Recording of personal choices, analysis of personality and drives, 
prediction of movement and decision, entrapment by manipulation of 
selection and situation...

Ugh.

Throw in the possibility that the government might want to "analyze" 
the data to "guard against" almost anything, and it curls up into 
something that PKD would have written a whole series about.

The best advice I can see is to clear cookies daily (if not more 
often) and put up with the hassle of signing on repeatedly. And 
surfing from behind a firewall with a transient IP address. Either 
that or pulling the plug and becoming a hermit...


-=-Dennis


>The apparent purpose is to target advertising more accurately

The __alleged__ purpose is to target advertising more accurately


















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