Privacy
Amazon’s 43 Secrets written by Salon’s Katharine Mieszkowski is a speculative piece of crap. In this period of national fear-mongering, Mieszkowski takes advantage of the tinfoil-hat set’s thin skin to press the notion that a multi-billion dollar corporation, Amazon.com, is secretly funding a startup with the intention of gathering personal data on individuals “confiding their [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed some of our magazines never arrived in the mail. So I emailed the publisher of one of the magazines to verify it had been sent (it had) and then the Postal Service to see about possible mail delivery problems in our area.
As it turns out, our mail carrier’s [...]
It would seem a woman from tony Clyde Hill is suing QFC for not invading her privacy by mining her Advantage Card purchase history for the possibility that she had purchased suspect meat.
Pause.
That’s right. Jill Crowson believes that QFC was negligent in not informing her personally of the possibility, even though the potentially mad [...]
A close family member forwarded an email to me with an apparent first-person account of a “new” credit card scam technique. The email starts like so:
My husband was called on Wednesday from “VISA”, and I was called of Thursday from “MasterCard”. The scam works like this:
Person calling says, “this is so-and-so, and I’m calling [...]
I haven’t used Gmail, nor have I looked at their terms of service, but this exaggerated response to the potential invasion of privacy the service could inflict upon its users is bizarre. Since when did anyone have any expectation of privacy when sending email? Sending an email is like sending a postcard. [...]
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