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Civic Justice

(870 posts)
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 08:11 AM Apr 2018

" You've Been Profiled"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

There is no honest need for any of these systems to store that data and certainly not to share it with anyone. If anything, it should auto delete on the providers server within 3-6-12 or 24 hrs, and there should be no back up system that retains it. But one has no idea how many "back up" to back up the back up's these people have. It should be simply "flow through" to whom ever the recipient is. If its saved it should be saved on one's personal independent unit. Not on some connecting service provider system. But.. that will never happen... it will continue to be saved and shared, regardless of what they tell the general public users.

We should demand that Future App's DO NOT ASK PERMISSION for things that has nothing to do with the app type one is using. Every App should have means to fully customize what it has access to.

When it comes to cloud storage, when it first started, I knew they' eventually become pay based, and at some point one company buys another, and "whamo", the data is transferred in the sale. Removable Media Storage is inexpensive and one has control over what ever they want to save. but, why people save sensitive stuff on someones server is likely because people get suckered in by the use of "words"... such a "cloud".. there is no "Cloud"... its someone's server !!!! Sure there may be functional usages for it... but.. it likely is not so good to put everything there, unless one has a need for such collaboration accessibility.

We are profiled by countless means, from the use of "discount cards" to "ATM swipes" to even going in stores that have camera's to monitor what people look at, even if they don't purchase it...

" You've Been Profiled"
" You're Being Profiled"
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