What happens is that you can be going along just fine until something happens where someone becomes interested in you. Then they have access to all of this information that has been being collected automatically.
2 examples A man fell in a grocery store and injured himself. When he started discussing payment of the medical bills with the store, and mentioned he might sue. The store responded by producing a list of all of his purchases in the store. These included alcohol purchases, Playboy magazines, condoms, etc. The store threatened that all of this information would be made public and used against him in a trial. It seems he had been using one of those 'frequent shopper' cards in order to get a discount on purchases. But the store now had the list of everything he'd bought.
The other example that comes to mind is that didn't Ken Starr's office very quickly come up with lists of all the videotapes that Monica Lewinski had rented when the focus of attention came up Ms. Monica?
So the problem isn't that what you are doing at any particular time is wrong. And you can be going along just fine until you draw the attention of the wrong person. Then all-of-a-sudden all of this information that seemed trivial at the time can be accessed and then selectively used.
"We believe that all men are created equal. And that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these rights are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That Governments are instituted among men in order to protect and preserve these rights..."
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What happens is that you can be going along just fine until something happens where someone becomes interested in you. Then they have access to all of this information that has been being collected automatically.
2 examples
A man fell in a grocery store and injured himself. When he started discussing payment of the medical bills with the store, and mentioned he might sue. The store responded by producing a list of all of his purchases in the store. These included alcohol purchases, Playboy magazines, condoms, etc. The store threatened that all of this information would be made public and used against him in a trial.
It seems he had been using one of those 'frequent shopper' cards in order to get a discount on purchases. But the store now had the list of everything he'd bought.
The other example that comes to mind is that didn't Ken Starr's office very quickly come up with lists of all the videotapes that Monica Lewinski had rented when the focus of attention came up Ms. Monica?
So the problem isn't that what you are doing at any particular time is wrong. And you can be going along just fine until you draw the attention of the wrong person. Then all-of-a-sudden all of this information that seemed trivial at the time can be accessed and then selectively used.
"We believe that all men are created equal. And that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these rights are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That Governments are instituted among men in order to protect and preserve these rights..."