Digital BW, The Print

You guys are all getting paranoid...pass the hooch and let me in on the
conspiracy.


> From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <dmanasco@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 05:48:32 -0600
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] If you belong to Yahoo groups please read this
> 
> 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