Data about all of us lives online, in “clouds,” on our web browsers and in others’ databases. Cell phones show our physical location and track the places we have been. Websites display the address and price of home purchases, along with the buyer and seller. Advertising agencies know the web pages we have visited and the text we have entered online. Increasingly, and with increasing sophistication, companies are collecting, analyzing and selling data about tens of millions of people. And most of those people have no idea when or how it’s happening.
via Stanford Magazine – Can I Get Some Privacy? – March/April 2013.
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