http://blog.privacypartners.com/2009/07/internet-companies-under-fire/ Protecting Your Internet Privacy Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:05:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.privacypartners.com/2009/07/internet-companies-under-fire/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Sophia S. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:59:46 +0000 http://blog.privacypartners.com/?p=387#comment-316 Behaviroal advertising is completely unethical and any Internet company that performs it is completely out of line. It is one thing for random pop-ups to be allowed onto my computer, but this is just a little too invasive. They are actually going to peruse my browsing history and look at my interests and dislikes based on it? I would rather stick with my random ads that have no relevence to me, thank you very much. It is messed up too how we have no say in the matter for the most part.... but it is legal to do this for them. Our stupid terms of service require us to write off all of our constitutional rights before we are able to use their site. Does anybody read those things anyway? Didn't think so; that's how they get us. This just doesn't seem secure either. If even our Internet providers decide to share our information with competitors and third party sales people, who can we trust anymore? I trust my proxy server, because I know they are safe and secure just for a couple of dollars a month. It really helps me exact a little vengeance on the behavorial advertisers too.... all of my data is totally encrypted and they won't know what the heck i'm intersted in when all they see is hieroglyphics! Behaviroal advertising is completely unethical and any Internet company that performs it is completely out of line. It is one thing for random pop-ups to be allowed onto my computer, but this is just a little too invasive. They are actually going to peruse my browsing history and look at my interests and dislikes based on it? I would rather stick with my random ads that have no relevence to me, thank you very much. It is messed up too how we have no say in the matter for the most part…. but it is legal to do this for them. Our stupid terms of service require us to write off all of our constitutional rights before we are able to use their site. Does anybody read those things anyway? Didn’t think so; that’s how they get us. This just doesn’t seem secure either. If even our Internet providers decide to share our information with competitors and third party sales people, who can we trust anymore? I trust my proxy server, because I know they are safe and secure just for a couple of dollars a month. It really helps me exact a little vengeance on the behavorial advertisers too…. all of my data is totally encrypted and they won’t know what the heck i’m intersted in when all they see is hieroglyphics!

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