Digital BW, The Print

I'm reminded of Scott Mcnealy's (Sun Micro Systems) comment in 1999, " You have no 
privacy.  Get over it!"

Jim
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale <stevekale@b...> 
wrote:
>
> You guys are all getting paranoid...pass the hooch and let me in on the
> conspiracy.
> 
> 
> > From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <dmanasco@i...>
> > 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
>