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The New York Times published an article on Sunday confirming what we've all assumed — that internet privacy policies are so full of loopholes as to be meaningless. They found that of the 100 top alexa-ranked english-language websites, 85 had privacy policies that permitted them to disclose users' personal information in cases of mergers, bankruptcy, asset sales and other business transactions.
When sites and apps get acquired or go bankrupt, the consumer data they have amassed may be among the companies' most valuable assets. And that has created an incentive for some online services to collect vast databases on people without giving them the power to decide which companies, or industries, may end up with their information.
"In effect, there's a race to the bottom as companies make representations that are weak and provide little actual privacy protection to consumers," said Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit research center in Washington.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @04:26AM
Then those "real people" aren't doing their jobs as citizens and are part of the problem.
This is the kind of article you send your relatives who think you are a paranoid kook every time you try to warn them.
Paranoid people are focused on themselves and what others could do to them personally. A smart person looks at evidence and cares about more than just themselves, even if there is a slim chance they could be personally impacted.
It's not paranoia. Mass surveillance is a fact; both corporations and the government are doing it. There's nothing kooky about this; most people are just profoundly ignorant and dismiss those who pay attention as "kooks".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @12:36PM
> Then those "real people" aren't doing their jobs as citizens and are part of the problem.
Kind of like how you didn't your job as a citizen and actually read the line of my post you quoted and went off on a strawman?