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How To Protect Your Privacy and Make Money
itwbennett writes "You have precious personal information; marketers are willing to pay good money for it; and now there are services to broker the deal. London-based Allow Ltd., for example, negotiates with marketers on your behalf and cuts you in on the deal. One Allow customer, Giles Sequeira, made a whopping $10 for letting a single credit card company know that he's in the market for new plastic. In the US, a company called Personal is starting a similar pay-for-data service, and you can hop on its waiting list now." Anyone selling bridges?
Posting anonymous so that... Bots can't dig my posting habits!!
How does this protect your privacy? It sounds more like selling your privacy.
Although this does seem a bit like getting paid to donate blood, somehow good but wrong... this guy has some interesting writing on how selling your 'private' data can be a good idea.
Waiting for the other shoe to...
One Allow customer, Giles Sequeira, made a whopping $10 for letting a single credit card company know that he's in the market for new plastic.
If you make $10 selling your own personal information, guess where they'll recover their $10 from, a bit later. You. And they'll make a profit.
Everything is for sale..
Let's all wait for the general population to whore themselves out further.
vos nescitis quicquam, nec cogitatis quia expedit nobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo et non tota gens pereat.
so can I negotiate with facebook for the cost of all the private data they are freely taking?
is way less profitable than selling your body.
Does your own asshattery mean you are now gone, or only asshattery in what is posted on the front page?
PROTIP: complaining as an AC is not going to convince anyone.
How can you even begin to see this as effective market research? Your sample has ulterior motives. They'll answer whatever gets them the money.
Do I even have to ask why affiliate marketing schemes are on front page of slashdot?
many think greed, fear & ego are our primary motives? others think we're fanatical crusading zealots. the more we know about you/your fears/needs/ability to pay, the better we're able to decide how to arm you/us against your enemies, or anybody for that matter. just please (we mean that in the strongest terms) don't use our weapons against us, ok? the money's good, right? nobody knows much, so the 'privacy's' good too? that's US? see you on the other side of it?
despite the obviously expanding 'unrest' (continued facilitation of the murder of innocent folks by weaponized industrialists/unnamed corepirate nazi elitists/bankers/politicians' hired goons etc...), the creators are continuing to schedule million baby 'play-dates' all over the wwworld. they must know something too?
The company does not even list a Chief Information Security Office (CISO) listed among their upper level management. How can they claim to respect privacy and security when their senior level technology management expertise lies in making online maps?
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I've never asked anything of you; please try to find something even more 'asshattish' than this and bit by bit the world becomes a better place....
I know you have it in you.
It is indeed a great marketing strategy of having a very large number of customer in a single shot. Thanks for the initiative and the analysis about this topic.
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I wonder how long before ID theft get's applied to make money this way...
How is this any different from the billion other survey sites on the internet (Rewards Central for example) that pay you to do surveys or polls and then give you a small payment for it?
....if I'd ticked 'Ads Disabled'.
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Like some nice guy you meet on the street, tell you how horrible the world is and say to you: give me all your privacy, they are safe with me.
Does anyone here know? How much information is there on people, who are the groups that have it, how to access it, and when do these laws start meeting resistance and limitations? The Habeas Data and FOIA laws give you the right to know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_Data. The lesson of Wikileaks and these laws are, information is power. We need some public information and intelligence agencies, too. Enough information for government only, we all have a right to information too.
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Perhaps it is time to fight back?
I dislike that any web site I visit can pull irrelevant information from my browser.. perhaps a privacy option or plugin for Firefox which whitelists information provided to websites?
Perhaps allow either an override or random values to be sent instead?
We know that Mozilla is looking into similar options - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334615/Privacy-victory-Firefox-plans-stop-firms-tracking-look-online.html - but this is addressing the problem at a higher layer.
Any thoughts out there?
I currently run NoScript, AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, Better Privacy plugins.. but nothing I've seen can prevent or change data sent to the web server.
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And of course that is the reason why if I pay with iDeal (dutch bank system) I don't have to pay the transaction fee that I have to pay when I use a credit card.
Not all companies do this, most just add the transaction costs to the price. But those companies that operate in more then one country clearly show just how expensive credit cards are and it is YOU that ends up paying it.
Oh and what is the monthly, yearly cost for your credit card? Mine is 10 euro's per year and I can pay in any shop and online with ease and more security.
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I'm really not interested in this until I can pull a Chicago attack on it. In other words, create lots of fake identities and get $reward*$fakes.
Of course, it'd be highly illegal unless I could find some kind of loophole. So, for all intents and purposes (heheh) I'm not interested.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
My name is Rufus T. Firefly. I live at 123 Main St., Anywhere, USA. My phone number is +1(800)555-1212. My Social Security number is 078-05-1120.
How much do I get paid?
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
yeah, you ticked it off. :p
Hell I'm broke atm, I'll sell all my friend's phone numbers, email, facebook profiles you name lol
As an enterprise software salesmen once told me, "Bits are like hookers, You sell them, you still have them, you sell them again."
This is just a replay of the "Loyalty Card" boom some 15-20 years ago.
At the time, it was all new. So, what was offered was a consideration.
E.g. "Safeway" grocery chain said "You will always get the lowest price available -- no more coupons to clip ..."
That NEVER really happened. Checkouts would keep a copy of the latest flyer, and scan in coupons from it (for any customer, with or without a loyalty card) ... But as for vendor coupons .. competitors offering to double or triple 'em ... All of the original "come ons" were quickly forgotten or abandoned.
From what I can tell, many other "Loyalty cards" have had similar changing terms.
For a "private information broker" who stands between collectors and consumers to be of any use, they MUST defend the consumers -- in court if necessary -- as terms change.
Websites collecting private info almost always have an "out" -- sell the company and all the info collected goes to the new company, with all the original guarantees "forgotten".
So like, we get an automated system to dummy up few million fake peoples' info and sell it to the people buying. We dilute the pool of real people thus adding to our own personal security and make money at the same time... yays for win/win!
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