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UTUSN

(70,711 posts)
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 01:47 PM Jun 2013

"Data collecting" has never worked for me tho my assumption is that my data is everywhere

The few times I've tried PRYING on the internet, precious little has filtered through, beyond tons of sites willing to charge for promised scoop beyond belief. Not that long ago in my computing, when I had no clue I would actually type, "What do I do now?" and stare at the screen waiting for an answer.

But more important than my lack of knowledge has been my steady concluding that cameras are everywhere, my data is collected everywhere down to the cash register, and that much of all of everybody's data is useless.

The furor over Verizon (and all the Not-named) is laughable. Every day on the local news robbers are shown from surveillance video. Apparently only convenience store robbers believe they can walk around anywhere without being data collected.

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monmouth3

(3,871 posts)
1. Exactly. DU is really going nutzo. My son works for Verizon and mentioned to me
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 01:53 PM
Jun 2013

last evening: After 9-11, anyone expecting to maintain their privacy, in all areas, is just naive. From my grocery store to wherever I used by debit card, my bank, all of it, is open information. This is the age we live in..

UTUSN

(70,711 posts)
2. Radio wingnuts are John-WAYNE-hysterical right now. Guess they believe in "privacy" now (not for
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 02:02 PM
Jun 2013

personal/social decisions).

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)
3. And yet Fox, during Bush of course, thought this was a great idea. Anti-terrorist
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 02:05 PM
Jun 2013

precautions and all that...sigh.

UTUSN

(70,711 posts)
4. The local radio wingnut chimed in, "It's not just wingnuts yammering about this." & I replied
Fri Jun 7, 2013, 04:18 PM
Jun 2013

Yeah, there are some of his initial base saying, “He’s lost my vote.” Uh, is he running for anything?

Just heard HANNITY whining about OBAMA’s supposed hypocrisy, how he swore he would never do this and how he griped when ONLY THREE got waterboarded. Oh, just like ONLY FOUR dead in Benghazi compared to RAYGUN’s 299 dead in Beirut.

John WAYNE wingnuts lack PERSPECTIVE and so do the other current yammerers, no matter what comfort you (local wingnut) take from gaining numbers from them.


You KNOW you're just grasping. You'd be happy if the person was Shrub! (& the activities ARE Shrub's.)

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