Comments on: Everyone has something to hide http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:25:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Thomas Roy Garner http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447/comment-page-1#comment-615553 Thomas Roy Garner Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:58:41 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447#comment-615553 Funny how ppl are so quick to jump on Google for their tracking, but ppl w/ a Safeway card, has no problem w/ Safeway tracking their spending habits (which are sold as statistics to wholesale grocery buyers, as a chart-like item to see what is "hot" and what is "not hot"), many ppl LOVE Amazon's "you've read this and we think you'd like...", Netflix, you watched this, now look at what others in your zip-code/town/area are watching... If ppl didn't think that Google was tracking this information for the ability to sell it to marketers, then many of you need to wake-up, your movements on the web are tracked, packaged and sold to anyone that wants it... Maybe it's time to start thinking again and trying to come up w/ ways to stop this tracking other than... I've got nothing to hide, why are you so defensive argument... Funny how ppl are so quick to jump on Google for their tracking, but ppl w/ a Safeway card, has no problem w/ Safeway tracking their spending habits (which are sold as statistics to wholesale grocery buyers, as a chart-like item to see what is “hot” and what is “not hot”), many ppl LOVE Amazon’s “you’ve read this and we think you’d like…”, Netflix, you watched this, now look at what others in your zip-code/town/area are watching…

If ppl didn’t think that Google was tracking this information for the ability to sell it to marketers, then many of you need to wake-up, your movements on the web are tracked, packaged and sold to anyone that wants it…

Maybe it’s time to start thinking again and trying to come up w/ ways to stop this tracking other than… I’ve got nothing to hide, why are you so defensive argument…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447/comment-page-1#comment-614404 Reader's Write Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:11:01 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447#comment-614404 I've always wondered why the necessity of collecting user info without consent. Anyway I have nothing to hide. I understand that there's nothing hidden or secret which won't be revealed in time. Besides all internet activity being monitored and recorded, the govt also spies on all their citizens, and has done so long before it was all legalized. As well as this we are all accountable to the highest Court, whose representatives know every detail of our lives without the use of technology. I’ve always wondered why the necessity of collecting user info without consent. Anyway I have nothing to hide. I understand that there’s nothing hidden or secret which won’t be revealed in time. Besides all internet activity being monitored and recorded, the govt also spies on all their citizens, and has done so long before it was all legalized. As well as this we are all accountable to the highest Court, whose representatives know every detail of our lives without the use of technology.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447/comment-page-1#comment-612658 Reader's Write Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:45:34 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447#comment-612658 now this is the exact reason why I never got a youtube account or a google account. I knew all this data collection shit would come back and haunt everyone. I think google needs to wake up and stop collecting info. Just destroy it. now this is the exact reason why I never got a youtube account or a google account.
I knew all this data collection shit would come back and haunt everyone.
I think google needs to wake up and stop collecting info. Just destroy it.

]]> By: ComeonComcast http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447/comment-page-1#comment-612559 ComeonComcast Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:14:33 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16447#comment-612559 Now drop your pants! Now drop your pants!

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