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  Mark3132 months, 4 weeks ago

  The cornerstones of privacy regulation is notice and choice. Anyone who gathers information about you should tell you what they are collecting, and what they plan to do with it, and enable you to demand that they not do so. Internet users should inform themselves about Internet privacy practices. Learn what Internet marketers are doing, and when it crosses your personal threshold, ask them to stop. Search engines record every search query you ever enter - unless you set your account to stop it. Some ISPs track every Web site you visit - unless you ask them not to. Learn much more about Internet privacy at FindingDulcinea's Web Guide to Internet Marketing and Privacy. It is guide to the best online resources for arming yourself with the information you need to make your own personal choices.

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  lfergie8122 months, 4 weeks ago

  Maybe this is why I get all those Viagra ads in my email. LOL

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  texangelwings2 months, 4 weeks ago

  They probably know more about me than I know about me...;)

  This is suppose to be a free country, free from an overbearing government! I hope that someone puts a stop to government nosing into individuals private lives!

  Thanks Beau.

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    nostalgia2 months, 4 weeks ago

    Doesn't sound like the government is nosing into people's lives. It is the online tracking companies who are following where you go on the web then sending you a tailored ad.

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      LeftTurn2 months, 4 weeks ago

      Who exactly do you think pioneered how to spy on people through the net? It wasn't Revenue Science I think we can safely assume, maybe the government is saying "hey, you can't have as much info as we have about people"

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      pc252 months, 4 weeks ago

      not so..........

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      pc252 months, 4 weeks ago

      people fail to realize that they give up more information about their daily habits by using their cell phones,yo whereabouts can be trtacked if your sell phone is on, credit cards, atm cards, interactive cable boxes, ez passes, and browsing the internet to anyone who has the know how to access this information...........and in this case it is not the Government that does this but these companies that specialice in DATA mining and the selling of this information..........and it's all around in ways you can never imagine.......I went to my local Hollywood Video store on Tuesday to rent a couple of dvds for the week and imagine my surprise when they gave me the receipt they also gave me a printout of about 25 not well known video titles that according to my history of rentals they reccommended highly to me ........that I would enjoy these titles very much..........now someone had to program that for them and that is now information that maybe they can sell...........

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        Beau78902 months, 4 weeks ago

        That's exactly how it works. And there's a point at which you realize that you have to give up information to some corporation in order to not be a hermit. Utility companies have tons of stuff on you.

        And you're right, the government isn't doing the mining of data--at least not that I've heard about. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they used the information, though.

        But the government has done nothing to protect the people's right to their own information--information that puts them at risk.

        I know a woman who bought a condo two years ago. She Googled herself and the top link that came up was one to some real-estate service that listed her name, address, and the price of the condo.

        That seems to me to put her at enough of a risk to warrant government protection.

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          lfergie8122 months, 4 weeks ago

          Didn't the government take Google to court to make them turn over internet users search information?? It seem that they went through a long court case but I never heard what become of it.

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  bloodbrought2 months, 4 weeks ago

  I noticed this just yesterday while visiting a popular website for people who can create groups of different interest and meet.

  As I clicked on a member's profile, I noticed on the left side of the website showed gay advertisments, etc...then when I clicked on mines, it showed advertisements with Christianity interest.

  I hope this situation will turn around for the good according to GOD's will.

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    miklkit2 months, 4 weeks ago

    "God helps those who help themselves."

    "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!"

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    helloworldbea2 months, 4 weeks ago

    This is strangely common.

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  Cybnetic2 months, 4 weeks ago

  I am sick and tired of the government spying and collecting data on everyone. this has got to stop!!!!!! I do not care to be cataloged and data based for anything. they can kiss my big polish butt. what the heck happened to our real privacy! bastards

  ITS TIME FOR A REVOLUTION!!!!!!

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  chevydog2 months, 4 weeks ago

  I suspect that various organizations know a lot more about us than we want known. Have always resented the concept of "selling"; would very much prefer for sales types to sit in one place until I choose to come to them.

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  Leemck022 months, 4 weeks ago

  I am concerned about the ability to make effective propaganda. When we have news, it runs a day or two then we got it and on to he next event. When a topic stays in the media for days, more is going on than news. Our opinions start to change, and that is a psyche ops thing. There is an agenda you can bet, and we may not know who's agenda it is. How to keep us engaged instead of being suspicious to question who, what and why we should consider the matter is an art.

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