Privacy?

Remember when

Privacy

meant something in your family?

Did your

Parents

ever tell you not to give out personal information over the telephone?

Were you told not to give your true name

or location to someone on the

Internet,

on your

PlayStation,

or

Xbox?

Or do you tell your children about these precautionary tales?

You probably have heard that

Facebook

sells your information to all kinds of

Tracking Companies

so these

Companies

can send you advertisement that will influence your

Purchasing Power,

Voting,

and even your

Charitable Contributions.

Let me tell you something,

Facebook

is not the only one.

Apple,

Google,

Cable & Satellite

companies do the same thing.

Oh,

and those little apps you like put on your phone for fun,

like

Angry Birds & Candy Crush,

they steal your information right off your phone!

Seemingly simple mobile games made us all way too comfortable with giving away our personal information.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany  @kait_tiffany  kaitlyn.tiffany@vox.com  For Vox.com

"The way mobile games collect information about their users, and the details of what type of information they’re collecting, remains incredibly opaque. To some extent, Rovio and its peers may not even know exactly what they’re collecting about their users or how the data is being exploited, thanks to the way software has evolved in the smartphone era. Mobile games are full of other companies’ code, a more efficient way of creating something cheap and functional and cute than building it from scratch. The fact that it’s all so confusing is kind of the point, obviously. And as a result, mobile games have escaped the level of scrutiny we’ve applied to social media companies, despite being — as a category — nearly equally popular and far more likely to be used by children."

How can these developers do this you might ask?

It's all in the

EULA!

The End-User Licensing Agreement.

When was the last time you read one of these?

Never right?

Sorry to burst your bubble on your cellphone

but if try turning off all the

Tracking

and

Data Mining

your phone does of your information,

nothing will work!

It's in the

EULA.

You can

Jailbreak

your phone,

but I can't promote anything that might be illegal

or,

if you do it incorrectly,

damage your phone.

That's up to you to decide.

About that privacy thing I thought we had when I was a kid.

Remember the

White Pages?

That big book of phone numbers

and addresses that you had to pay not to be included?

And what about the

Post Office?

They have been selling your current

and new addresses,

if you move,

to companies,

since their inception.

How do you think those companies,
who send you all that junk mail,

know your name?

For a dollar I am able to look up your complete history as long as I can accurately spell your name

and know the city you are currently living in.

On some search engines I just need your name

but they charge a little more since they will bring up everyone with the same name.

Privacy?

To the true meaning of the word,

I don't think we ever had it.

And in the future?

I believe we will have even less of it.

This is,

I Know Where You Live

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
- Edward Snowden -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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