Poll Question: Apr. 19, 2018

Apr. 17, 2018

3:31 p.m.

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Comments (2)

Too simple

A more stimulating question would be, "Will you still use facebook with the knowledge that you and your friends' data is being sold to corporations like Cambridge Analytica?"

Whether or not we trust the company doesn't dig deep enough.

MKE Citizen more than 6 years ago

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...

Yes, the TOC and Privacy policy may be accurate, but like any legal fine-print, the common person neither has the time to read it all, nor the understanding of what it says.

So they share their information only with their business partners... Yes, that means anyone they formed a deal with. Your information is for sale, it always has been!

The last thing these "business partners" will want is for the Federal government to regulate them. Then we would just be another "European Socialist" welfare state.

But, would we really be?

We have old rules here in the US against "mail fraud", but where is our rules against "telephone fraud" filled with fake Caller ID info? Where is the rules against email fraud and text message fraud? Generalized internet browser fraud?

Remember when we once could call a phone# with a code that blocked the receiver from getting your phone#? Did you know that blocking your number never worked on calling a toll-free number? It seems that when they were paying the call, they "bought" the absolute right to know who was calling!

Imagine if a letter arriving in your US Postal Service had the ability to detect who else sent letters to you, and could even read the private, confidential contents of all those other letters. You would be pretty ticked off wouldn't you?

That is what can happen with the electronic world. If it is not the senders of spam doing this to you, remember that your ISP has their finger on everything that hits your phone or computer. AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum, they all have all the goods on you, even when you are paying the bill and not getting free service.

Makes you want to go back to the days of Ham radio and CB radio, no cell towers to "intercept" all traffic.

When the service you are using is free, then YOU ARE THE PRODUCT BEING SOLD.

And that includes president Trump's Twitter traffic.

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 6 years ago