Comments on: How Much Is Your Search Data Worth? http://www.joemanna.com/blog/how-much-is-your-search-data-worth/ Joe Manna's Personal Blog. Community manager, social media strategist and very opinionated. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:23:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Junkyard Willie http://www.joemanna.com/blog/how-much-is-your-search-data-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-4284 Junkyard Willie Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:05:27 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/how-much-is-your-search-data-worth/#comment-4284 1.) Isn't it funny that when the issue is the government invading the privacy of the public everyone gets their panties in a bunch; but when it's corporations doing it (who then give or sell your data to the government- just like they've been doing since the FDR administration) nobody seems to give a fat fiddler's foreskin? 2.) Your readers should know that anything you do on the internet you might as well be doing out in the middle of the street. If you have pictures you wouldn't want to see plastered on the side of a Circle K then for Allah's sake whatever you do don't post them online. Same goes for search results- you wouldn't go to the library (or police station) and ask the nice lady "where are all them picture books with underage kids in them at," would you? 3.) I used underage kids for a reason too- now that the public is tired of hearing about terrorists the new excuse to infringe on the online privacy of US citizens is fear of "online predators" fed by shameless titillation-fests like "To Catch A Predator." It's a two-fer-one; the populace gets a group that's safe to hate every week (and all the bigots are sure to see their ethnicity of choice among the pedophiles); and then they give corporations and the State a free pass on trawling their data. Hey, if unaccountable third parties don't sift through every byte of your traffic, online predators might come steal your children in the night- and remember, if you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about? 4.) I wonder how much of this is building up to the point where ISP's voluntarily turn "suspicious" information over to copyright holders in an effort to continue the "War on Piracy," or as I like to call it the "War on Kids who are Downloading Good Charlotte Albums and Will Ferrel Movies." 5.) All that said, surf safe and smart and try not to loe much sleep over it; because if you had anything to hide, they would probably have it already anyway :( 1.) Isn’t it funny that when the issue is the government invading the privacy of the public everyone gets their panties in a bunch; but when it’s corporations doing it (who then give or sell your data to the government- just like they’ve been doing since the FDR administration) nobody seems to give a fat fiddler’s foreskin?

2.) Your readers should know that anything you do on the internet you might as well be doing out in the middle of the street. If you have pictures you wouldn’t want to see plastered on the side of a Circle K then for Allah’s sake whatever you do don’t post them online. Same goes for search results- you wouldn’t go to the library (or police station) and ask the nice lady “where are all them picture books with underage kids in them at,” would you?

3.) I used underage kids for a reason too- now that the public is tired of hearing about terrorists the new excuse to infringe on the online privacy of US citizens is fear of “online predators” fed by shameless titillation-fests like “To Catch A Predator.” It’s a two-fer-one; the populace gets a group that’s safe to hate every week (and all the bigots are sure to see their ethnicity of choice among the pedophiles); and then they give corporations and the State a free pass on trawling their data. Hey, if unaccountable third parties don’t sift through every byte of your traffic, online predators might come steal your children in the night- and remember, if you’re not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?

4.) I wonder how much of this is building up to the point where ISP’s voluntarily turn “suspicious” information over to copyright holders in an effort to continue the “War on Piracy,” or as I like to call it the “War on Kids who are Downloading Good Charlotte Albums and Will Ferrel Movies.”

5.) All that said, surf safe and smart and try not to loe much sleep over it; because if you had anything to hide, they would probably have it already anyway :(

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