“Everything you send is stored on my server… So all your sex messages and you, like, d*ck pics are on my server now…”
“All your illegitimate wives and, like, all the girls you’ve been f*cking around with, they’re are on my server now… I’m going to send it to your wife, she’s going use it in your divorce.”
“So, what happens is like, you like, write something or post pictures on line, they never go away… Because even after you send them, people are like analyzing them, to see what you are interested in, to see what you are talking about. And they sell that data.”
This has been a shock for many people who are trying to rack their brains remembering what kind of shit they shared via DMs. And as unethical and disgusting Twitter engineers are, they are most likely protected by the law. Why? you gave up your right to privacy when you joined Twitter, remember?
And the one physical problem companies had before that we don’t have now is cheap storage. The cost of a megabyte of storage is now literally cents and the profit they can get from the info obtained by a couple of hundred clients will offset that cost rather fast.
Back in the Age of Internet Dinosaurs, there was an expression regarding what to send via email: “Never write anything so private you would not dare to send it in a postcard.” The problem is that now we have generations that have no idea what a postcard is, so we need to update it to something the can relate.
“Never send anything so private you would not dare to have it posted in a bumper sticker.”
I am open to suggestions on this slogan thing.
Posting something on-line is like posting it on a billboard in front of your house.
Really.
I mean, REALLY!!!
Your only protection is that 3 billion people are also posting shit about themselves. The downside is, as was pointed out, it will – never – go – away.
It is a “Free Service.”
You are not the Customer. You (and your personal data) are the Product. Everything about you including your name is sold to as many customers as they can find. Here, China, Russia, Africa, as long as the check clears.
Never write or take a picture of anything you wouldnt want your mom to see…
Remember that 84 acre site in Utah built during obammys rien? Has it own power plant,EVERY email,phone call,text,photo goes thru that site. Remember Oct 2015 when your cell phone was all screwy for a day? Thats when it went on line.. so much for privacy.. put your devices in the microwave oven when you want privacy. And throw out “Alexa”. And the “smart” tv that listens to EVERYTHING you say and sends it somewhere.. i abor any device that is “smart”- got a thermostat you can vontrol by ur smart phone?? Good idea-its part of agenda 21 where the un will be able to control your heat in YOUR house.
How did the US make it from 1776 to now with out al gores internet??
Sorry techgeek I ll live my life my way….
Yet another good reason for throwing out alexa is that it will stop working when the NKs set off their EMP missile over the USA. (So will all those politically correct LED “light bulbs”, and most newer fluorescents as well, come to think of it. The only thing that will still work is the thing you’re no longer allowed to use — the incandescent light bulb.)