How much do you care about your privacy?

Hey polachicago, sorry Im late, but we all know once we join the internet that our name, data, and so on is out there!What with FaceBook, Youtube,Myspace, Tagged, just to name a few! welcome to the new world or technology!

hi pola i am a very private person and i do appreciate the link that you wrote here thanks:)

Yes, it is very shocking that our privacy is being invaded and our personal data is stored by those unknown persons, whom we definitely do not know. I've read that link. Please tell me, what we can do to protect our privacy. Thanks for the information. Hugs!

Hi dear yeah u r right well i dont like my personal profile and history what i do on internet is recorded and kept in record but u have no option than to use these sites and u r right, its like gold in global world i will look at link and sure help me, thanks, but i am sure now ur data must be with lot of engines Take care

A very interesting link , very useful, thank you. I did not know about that, and i am not very happy. ... mhm .. Regarding your question, yes, we all care, this is the hottest problem we have on the internet. I really appreciate those kind of postings, and if there is any way I could show that, please tell me ... is there a way i could vote for this user or discussion? Excepting my comment, of course.

thanks for provding link for protection and yeah I also care about my personal data very much and I could not reavel you since I reveal it to you then how it could be private , just kidding , thanks again

My privacy means a lot to me but once you give your information out to any site on the internet, it is too late for the information not be shared with someone else. So, I have given up hope of trying to protect my privacy because it is too late for that now.

maybe glad I dont use aol I do use aim tho onec in awhile a great while!

Yes I do care about my privacy and personal data. I try to clar my cache on a regular basis because I do care about my privacy. Thanks for this information.

of course I do my email addresses have been used to spread junk emails all over the world that's why I put sort of disclaimer on my website and blog so people that receive these emails (well hopefully they search for my business name or my name online) will see my website and blog and know those emails are fake Yahoo can only send them to junk email box and they still missed some that went to my mailbox Gmail hasn't missed any yet but they also send to junk email inbox, that's it they wrote my email address as sender, they didn't really log in to my account but I'm sure there is something else email providers can do aside from sorting it into junk mail box

Yes i Do care about my privacy in all ways..since i have been brought up from a family where they seek privacy a lot i also got it from them and expect a lot of privacy and sometimes i dont like people peeping over my things and get irritated at tham and i dont see many people like me because they just dont care about their tthings and i fell pretty bad about them since they share all their things with others....Happy Mylotting..

Privacy is something that is important to me. Even in my life, I am considered a private person. I keep profiles on sites vague. It is rare if I use my name on anything.

I am a privacy freak .I am so into my privacy that sometimes i dont even like my neighbors to knwo when I am home.I do know about what you are saying though about search engines storing oour personal data

Well I was aware that some personal data may be stored like email address etc, however I didn't realize that there would be a full profile for every user. Well it is sure correct to protect our personal information, thanks for your advise.

It kinda scares me all these companies out there that want to protect your privacy... who is to say they are not the ones that are doing the scamming out there. Just like anything else, if you do what you are supposed to do and be where you are supposed to be (and not where you aren't) the chances of your identity being 'stolen' has got to decrease immensely. Thanks Zelo

It does not bother me, because I can clear personal data and you can put down information so no one knows, like using a user name, and just your email, but keeping your telephone number, street address secret. Oh and I think mylot moderators know the difference between a normal link and a link that has a referral link or your id number at the end, don't they? You do not have to tell them that. When I write a post or answer a discussion, I will put down the url to a site that will give them more information then I can give them. I am more afraid of copyright issues if I coped and pasted the information, you know being sued for thousands of dollars rather frightens me.

Unfortunately personal privacy is a thing of the past, and we have to live with it. This is a most detracting way of modern life, and with all these stoers of private and personal, I wonder why criminals are not captured nore easier. Food for thought.

Privacy is a very important thing to me but unfortunately there seems to be getting less and less of it all the time. Thank You my friend.

I have heard about problems with the major search engines collecting search data and hackers and spammers using details, but whilst I have a fair amount of spam, I think that is from leaving my e-mail addresses on various sites around the web. Apparently there are spiders crawling the sites for e-mail addresses, so I have several web accounts like hotmail and yahoo. This ixquick site looks useful. I use spybot search and destroy and there is often lots of spyware files that it deletes, so it will be interesting to give ixquick and try and see what happens. Thanks for the link :-) Derek

Yes, I'm a nut about my privacy! That looks like a good idea but I don't see any mention of a price anywhere, is it free? I'm so careful with my info that my name doesn't even appear on my Windows license or my internal computer information. There are too many bad guys out there!