Big Brother is watching
Some things you might not know: Your smart TV is probably watching you watch it. Your office photocopier is recording everything you duplicate. Your smartphone can identify you by the way you walk, the way you hold it, and may also be recording you. The app you downloaded has now siphoned your name, e-mail address and place of residence and reported back to its parent company.
160,000 Facebook accounts are compromised per day, and the company loosens up your privacy settings every time they update the terms of service — not that they’ll tell you.
Google reads your Gmail and sells your personal information to advertisers. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn also sell whatever data on you they've got.
Nordstrom and Home Depot track your movements through their stores using Wi-Fi and your cellphone.
Disneyland tracks visitors via sensor-enabled bracelets that they supply; the company records everything the wearer does, says and buys, and then — if that wearer is 13 or over — sells that data to others.
In 2010, the Nielsen company, which measures TV ratings, broke into PatientsLikeMe, an online forum where those suffering from chronic illnesses ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s disease to mood disorders gather. Why? To swipe data to sell to the pharmaceutical industry, among others.
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