U.S. Firm's Sale Of Personal Data About Canadians Sparks Complaint

Wow. This has been up over 18 hours, and not one comment. Does no one care about their privacy anymore?



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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

I don't know where the comments are today. Maybe there's a protest going on that I don't know about?

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Jesse

I guess we didn't get that memo.


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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

Perhaps we are becoming accustomed to having our rights and freedoms trampled on, and this could simply be one more example. Apathy. If the internet is supposed to be free, then we have given up some of our rights to privacy. What next? Can we stop it? Do we really want to stop it? All good questions. Answers please?

People are accustom to having politicians lie to them. So much so that they expect it, rather than cause an uproar to change that trend.

People are so accustomed to store 'club cards' and airmiles filling their post boxes with junk mail, and on-line greeting card sites thatr choke your inbox with spam they have become numb to the invasion of privacy that goes along with these 'free gifts'.

Robert Heinlien abbreviated it best. TAANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

You have no right to privacy, except that which you make for yourself. There are 5 people on this board who know my meatspace name. If they google it, they'll find there are 5 other people on the planet that share that name (according to google) but they won't find me. I have tried very hard to protect my privacy.

Now, how are you going to protect yours?


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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

I've been trying to come to terms with this for months now. I can't make too many intellegent statements about digital files because I have no clue what they are. I can say however, that I never trusted my personal information being put out into computerworld. And all the time I avoided using the computer for my own personal use as well as braving the Internet. When I finally became so desperate to get in touch with the rest of Canada and the world on my terms this was the only choice I had.

I had to relinquish my fears when I looked at the other ways that I have been interacting with the world and saw how ridiculous my fear was. For instance, I was using credit cards, debit cards, and even if I did not, which I now do not, any transaction I do anywhere will be put on a computer where I do business so I still do not have the privacy I would like. My hydro, telephone, medical, mailing address, mortgage, bank account, insurances, all of it is out there without my wanting it there anyway. Am I upset, you bet. But when I examine this realistically, we're 30 years too late.

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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias