6th July 2010, 10:19 PM
Again this is mostly about a company making a bad move in requiring users to reveal private details to use their service.
Prediction: Mom loses job when employer discovers diatribe posted in her name by son who subscribes to WOW with her credit card.
This is the sort of scenario that could take place if they did this. I'll say again that you or me don't really need to fear being stalked (heck while most of my family is on that spokeo site, I'm not, I'm doing things right). The issue is that when companies do this, it puts those that ARE at risk at even greater risk. It's overstepping their bounds. It's not as bad as google's BUZZ which simply forced upon it's users without their consent. However, it's certainly a steep requirement. Countless people are already complaining here.
For me, the issue of privacy isn't really about personal danger. I'm not as paranoid as all that. (Though it IS an added benefit.) It's more about me just valuing my privacy as an end in itself. There are many just like that, clearly. Again, I'm not part of the facebook generation, which apparently includes both people much younger and people much older than me.
Prediction: Mom loses job when employer discovers diatribe posted in her name by son who subscribes to WOW with her credit card.
This is the sort of scenario that could take place if they did this. I'll say again that you or me don't really need to fear being stalked (heck while most of my family is on that spokeo site, I'm not, I'm doing things right). The issue is that when companies do this, it puts those that ARE at risk at even greater risk. It's overstepping their bounds. It's not as bad as google's BUZZ which simply forced upon it's users without their consent. However, it's certainly a steep requirement. Countless people are already complaining here.
For me, the issue of privacy isn't really about personal danger. I'm not as paranoid as all that. (Though it IS an added benefit.) It's more about me just valuing my privacy as an end in itself. There are many just like that, clearly. Again, I'm not part of the facebook generation, which apparently includes both people much younger and people much older than me.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)