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TennVet

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Ever notice that AARP knows when you turn 50? If you purchase a supplementary insurance plan related to you social security, you will be barraged by offers from numerous companies. Certain zip codes, persons who have purchased cars, or those who have a credit card of any type, get hit with sales pitches. My car is brand new, so why do extended warranty companies clutter my mailbox.
 

Cars collect and share a lot of data about you.

Short video, focused on right to repair vs. data collection. Caution, foul language:

 
USPS gives out addresses too, which is why I didn't file a change of address form with them. I am real tired of suddenly getting scads of junk mail because of doing that one thing.
 

TennVet said:
Ever notice that AARP knows when you turn 50? If you purchase a supplementary insurance plan related to you social security, you will be barraged by offers from numerous companies. Certain zip codes, persons who have purchased cars, or those who have a credit card of any type, get hit with sales pitches. My car is brand new, so why do extended warranty companies clutter my mailbox.
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What you have experienced is something that modern technology allows, it's known as profiling. The way it's done is insidious, for example. Your credit and debit card both give the issuing bank your spending habits, as does any electronic gizmo, your supermarket and other loyalty cards, do much the same. Internet cookies are prolific at farming your information. This trawling for your spending and other habits, knows no bounds.

The information is then profiled, and this is where George Orwell's predictions were so accurate. His book, "Nineteen Eighty-four," published in 1949 as a warning against totalitarianism. The novel's chilling dystopia is as relevant today as it was in 1949.

Your profile is then bought and sold until a huge mass of information about you is gathered, then it's sold to those with a vested interest in that information. Here in the UK we have a law known as The Freedom of Information Act. It gives us the right to access any information that has been stored about us, however, that law only covers public bodies like the police, government departments, local authorities, the NHS and state schools. Private organisations do not come within that law's remit.

You have but one option to opt out. Pay by cash, that is, as in the filthy folding stuff. It's anonymous, you can't be traced and that's why cash has a bad name, that's why payment by any other means is so preferable, to those for whom George Orwell so timely called: Big Brother.
 
horseless carriage said:
What you have experienced is something that modern technology allows, it's known as profiling. The way it's done is insidious, for example. Your credit and debit card both give the issuing bank your spending habits, as does any electronic gizmo, your supermarket and other loyalty cards, do much the same. Internet cookies are prolific at farming your information. This trawling for your spending and other habits, knows no bounds.

The information is then profiled, and this is where George Orwell's predictions were so accurate. His book, "Nineteen Eighty-four," published in 1949 as a warning against totalitarianism. The novel's chilling dystopia is as relevant today as it was in 1949.

Your profile is then bought and sold until a huge mass of information about you is gathered, then it's sold to those with a vested interest in that information. Here in the UK we have a law known as The Freedom of Information Act. It gives us the right to access any information that has been stored about us, however, that law only covers public bodies like the police, government departments, local authorities, the NHS and state schools. Private organisations do not come within that law's remit.

You have but one option to opt out. Pay by cash, that is, as in the filthy folding stuff. It's anonymous, you can't be traced and that's why cash has a bad name, that's why payment by any other means is so preferable, to those for whom George Orwell so timely called: Big Brother.
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Some businesses in the U.S., the biggies, are trying to urge lawmakers to turn the nation into a cashless society. Doing so will benefit them alone, of course, so that is why they keep trying to persuade lawmakers to get rid of cash.

Anytime you hear the phrase "cashless society" proposed by a lawmaker, that's when you know your lawmaker is either not very bright, or he/she is ready to sell their soul and the souls of their children to the highest bidders. Maybe you don't want them representing you.
 
horseless carriage said:
What you have experienced is something that modern technology allows, it's known as profiling. The way it's done is insidious, for example. Your credit and debit card both give the issuing bank your spending habits, as does any electronic gizmo, your supermarket and other loyalty cards, do much the same. Internet cookies are prolific at farming your information. This trawling for your spending and other habits, knows no bounds.

The information is then profiled, and this is where George Orwell's predictions were so accurate. His book, "Nineteen Eighty-four," published in 1949 as a warning against totalitarianism. The novel's chilling dystopia is as relevant today as it was in 1949.

Your profile is then bought and sold until a huge mass of information about you is gathered, then it's sold to those with a vested interest in that information. Here in the UK we have a law known as The Freedom of Information Act. It gives us the right to access any information that has been stored about us, however, that law only covers public bodies like the police, government departments, local authorities, the NHS and state schools. Private organisations do not come within that law's remit.

You have but one option to opt out. Pay by cash, that is, as in the filthy folding stuff. It's anonymous, you can't be traced and that's why cash has a bad name, that's why payment by any other means is so preferable, to those for whom George Orwell so timely called: Big Brother.
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You are so right. When my college professor made that required reading I thought it was far fetched, but Big Brother is alive and thriving.
 

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