You've got to see this......

Thanks to 1948CaseVAI for the reply to my post below, and the link he provided. I just watched it, and thought all of ya'll ought to see it too so I'm giving it it's own post. Given that he says he's in the business of data exchange, and that it's already 'scary' out there, it begs the question of how long until the scenario in the clip actually becomes more possible than it already is. You've got to admit, just the thought is scary enough.....
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They probably have most of that information already, they just don't tell you like she did.

They say "If you want to stop this from happening, take action now". They just don't tell you what action to take.

I called Anderson windows in MN. about replacing some windows. They just about had my life history on file or the computer. Maybe they had all of it and just did not tell me.

Start by voting for people who will stop the exchange of unrelated information. I know that poltical promises mean nothing, but research candidates for yourself and find those likely to oppose this kind of nonsense. Keep the pressure on the politicians every chance you get.

Let them know it is an issue for you - right now it looks like few people care and a lot of people get googly-eyed over the so-called "efficiency" that results in lowered costs. When did you last see that come true?

You cannot stop the technology as it is there and has been for a long time, but you have influence over the politics.

(quoted from post at 04:47:45 07/29/14) They say "If you want to stop this from happening, take action now". They just don't tell you what action to take.

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There is no action that you can take. Your data is already out there and it will always be out there. When they say, once something's out there on the internet it can never truly be deleted, it's true.

All complaining will do is guarantee that the only people who will have your data are the ones who want to do bad things with it. It's the same as the gun argument: Outlaw data, and only outlaws will have data.

Then when you call Andersen Windows you will have to go through the tedious process of spelling out your entire "life story" to them letter by letter so that they can ship you some windows, instead of them already having your information on the computer from the last time you did business with them. Then you can complain, "Why oh why can't you store that information on the computer so we don't have to go through this?"

When I go to Radio Shack they always ask for my phone number which I always refuse to give them. I tell them all I want to do is purchase a product for which I am paying cash but if they don't sell it otherwise, fine so be it. They always take my cash even without my phone number.

John T

Before 9-1-1, I showed up at a nuke to help a guy do an overtime job. First time ever at or in a nuke. I followed the guy in through the front doors, and he walked through a metal detector, so I followed him. You would have thought that I committed murder. On the other side of a short wall was a U.S. Marshall that began yelling at me for doing what I did, then she made me stand before her, my feet on top of painted foot prints in front of her table, her computer screen. My SSN, and she brought up my name, and all kinds of stuff about me that I had forgotten about. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty certain that she could have told me whom my mother lost her...flower to, what night, what year, and where long before I was born. Then she took a hand print of me, so that as I followed the guy that I was helping through ALL doors, my hand went onto a metal plate that sent it back to their network so that they knew where I was at ALL times. And because the "tech stats" were up on the guy that I was working with for that day, security came and grabbed him, and me, and tossed us both out. And since I was there to do the work because he couldn't, I then had to come back the next day to bring the phone system up that crashed and was completely down...all night until I came back and brought it up the next day. No phones at a nuke from about 8:00 Friday night until we were allowed back in at 8:00 Saturday morning. And I didn't even want to be there Friday night, let alone come back Saturday morning. Can you imagine that? Not a single working telephone anywhere in an entire nuke, because that guys "tech stats" hit the limit for the day and he wasn't even doing any work? He was just there to watch me, as my sponsor.

Anyway, that was before 9-1-1, and that marshall brought up things on me that happened when I was a kid. Imagine now with the NSA and IRS reading everyone's emails and recording everyone's cell calls. At least every cell call.

Mark

'fraid that one totally misses the point. They would have you believe that businesses will surreptitously get your personal information, then force you to buy stuff you don't want to buy at prices you don't want to pay.

The truth is quite the opposite: we gladly hand over our personal information for a variety of reasons: discounts, prizes, free delivery, casino buffets, etc. Businesses take the information they get from us for almost nothing and marry it with other information for which they pay (e.g. credit reports). They then use everything they know about us to sell us stuff that we are already inclined to buy.

It may come as a surprise that businesses are out to make money. P***ing off your customers is seldom a good business plan. But hanging a carrot out in front of your customers' noses is just smart business.