The Spies Among Us; Your Personal Info
Below is the link to the "60 Minutes" website and a segment of that show from Sunday, March 9, 2014. "60 Minutes" is a long time and highly popular CBS news program, and the show did a segment on "data brokers;" that is, on companies which compile information on YOU. The segment is about 15 minutes long, and you will be amazed at what you learn is going on with YOUR information, without YOUR knowledge, or YOUR permission. If you think Uncle Sam's been snooping on you, wait until you see this. Like the government's NSA spying, ah, I mean data collection, the intentions of any of these information gathering operations are not likely to conform neatly with the purported ideals of the operations. Information is seen by real live human beings, who then can't automatically forget what they've seen, just to conform to some written or spoken policy. You'll see one business executive say that this data collection should not be regulated and that if the government does so, "it could bring down the economy." Please, please!!! Watch this video! Businesses are collecting info about you and then selling it for profit ... YOUR INFO!!! Anything for money! As you'll see, they're in your computer and in your phone, and companies you do business with are reaping other income than just by selling you products or services, they're often selling your information! If you believe, as I do, that business is firmly in control of the country, you'll now see that they know more about you than your mother does. The alarm bells are ringing folks. Will you wake up?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-personal-information/
WORD HISTORY:
Data-This word is actually a plural form. It goes back to Indo European "doeh," which meant "to give." This gave its Italic offspring, and the derived Latin, "do," with the same basic meaning. This then gave Latin "dare," a verb meaning "to give, to offer." One of its participle forms was "datum," which then was used as a noun and meant "something or that which is given," the plural of which was "data." It was borrowed by English in the 1600s and the plural form tends to be used in English far more than the singular.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-personal-information/
WORD HISTORY:
Data-This word is actually a plural form. It goes back to Indo European "doeh," which meant "to give." This gave its Italic offspring, and the derived Latin, "do," with the same basic meaning. This then gave Latin "dare," a verb meaning "to give, to offer." One of its participle forms was "datum," which then was used as a noun and meant "something or that which is given," the plural of which was "data." It was borrowed by English in the 1600s and the plural form tends to be used in English far more than the singular.
Labels: business interests, data brokers, data collection, English, etymology, Latin, personal information, spying
posted by Randy at 10:31 AM
5 Comments:
I saw the 60 minutes show sunday and it is awful what these businesses are doing to us. how do we stop them? that business guy they had on who threatened to crash the economy, the more control they geet the more such blackmail they'll use so they aren't regulated. big time BS
Johnnie here, saw the piece Sunday and it's scary. I had no idea this kind of espionage was going on for profit. Glad I don't own a computer and I don't use a smart-type phone, since they are tracking us that way. They know what we buy, where we buy it, including about our sex lives, sexual orientation, and then sell this to employers! And that one guy said they shouldn't be regulated? Got to be a Republican, As U said, anything 4 $$$.
thank you for posting the great info
your info not safe anywhere no matter what any says, ask people about target and some of the others that got hacked
Wow, all the things I've missed here since I last checked in. Good article! We have to be more vigilant, before these corporations take over completely. They're well along already.
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