If Google isn't Big Brother they're doing a pretty good imitation. And escaping them is no easier than getting away from the Thought Police was for Winston. Once you understand how Google Web History works you'll have a pretty good idea how all the others who are following us around work. … [Read more...]
If GrowMap is About Growing Your Business, Why All the Posts on Privacy?
Before you start using any online method to grow your business - whether that be blogs, directories, social networking, advertising or any other method - you MUST understand how your activities online are being tracked so that you can control to which accounts your activities are being linked. Bear with me because this is a very important concept that all Internet users really need to understand and absolutely critical to those who are using the Internet to promote their business, non-profit, … [Read more...]
When FREE Is Definitely Not: What Those Free Services Are Really Costing You
When most companies - and especially corporations - provide extremely desirable and advanced services without charging you it is definitely NOT out of the goodness of their hearts. You can be assured that there is always a profit motive - always. That is a given - the obvious truth; what is not so obvious is what the means of generating profit is. … [Read more...]
Why You Really Need to Know: How Data Mining Works and How It Is Affecting You
You need to clearly understand how data mining works because it is already affecting your life and will do so much more in the very near future. It is simple to understand and if you're reading this there is a 90+% chance you use it yourself every day. Any person who wants to know all about you can do a similar search across multitudes of supposedly private databases. A search engine (Google, Yahoo, Ask - even my favorite Zuula) are all data mining services. You type in what you want to find … [Read more...]
Slip of the Tongue or Truth Revealed: You Have Zero Privacy Anyway – Get Over It
There was a furor when Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy told reporters "privacy issues are a red herring; you have zero privacy anyway...get over it!" Many could not believe he would say that; however, he was simply stating the truth - an obvious truth to those with access to the many databases that contain your life - and more problematic - things that did not actually happen but got recorded as though they did. Still believe we have privacy? Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said "The privacy … [Read more...]
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