Is Information Technology protecting your privacy, or is taking it away?

i gotten tons of junk mail everyday, even when you broke you get people try to make money off you or when you have money they do the same thing you cant never seem to get away from any people trying to sell you something or want something from you.

I have 6 email accounts, with 4 being really active. Almost every account is used for a specific purpose and has different spam filtering settings. My primary email address looks like a password itself (some people find that funny), just to prevent it from being randomly generated by spam software. I heard about zaba search a while ago, it is actually scary and I am really glad that it does not cover Canada. Though, I think that sooner or later we will be included in that monster as well. Another privacy issue comes from us posting on different forums on the internet. We generally leak a lot of private information about ourselves and we generally don't realize it as this is done over hundreds, if not thousands of posts. Now, I intentionally delete many messages from some forums occasionally in order to protect my privacy.

You certainly are harrassed. I don't have any such problems, only a few unwanted adds, mostly for credit cards, and the odd unsolicited e-mail. I guess living in Thailand could have a lot to do with it. I'm registered with a few survey sites, but they're not particularly interested in me either. I don't have a clue how you can deal with it. I've not heard of zaba search, and I don't think I want to. Good luck on your desert island. Don't forget your apple!

I think I read someone's discussion here about him finding his information publicly online. Yahoo has a WhoIS program that shows who lives where but I don't know about any other info. I think IT actually disclose our info more than protecting it. Yes if I remember correctly, this person lives in the US

what a nice image..."Sunday boys selling farmer'e eggs"...I can picture this image of quiet everyday life!!! Oh I do agree with you,....sometimes we are overwhelmed by technology and its power...think about that we can be under control each moment of our lives...our phones can be listened, our mails opened...our position on earth while driving can be signalled!!! oh I can remember myself fighting for my privacy with my brothers...do not open my diary, do not read my mails..I cannot even imagine my brothers opening my mails and now we all know that strangers can do this with our emails!!! however, this is the other face of progress and we have to accept the good and the bad...but we can struggle against its power...and try to protect from invading presence...pay attention when asked for opinions or signatures, when entering web sites and so on...by the way, what is zaba? forgive me for my ignorance!!!

well i just answered your last post about the real id act. my opinion is that information technology is not at all protecting my privacy, it is surely taking that away from me.

I just tare them all up and I put those offers in emails in the spam box. Dont know how to get our names off this list for you bank sells your name to these 3rd companies

We are quite lucky in the UK that we have laws that prevent folks from sending us rubbish in the post ... and we also have laws to reduce to a minimum cold calling and telemarketing .. I think in America it's pretty impossible to get your names removed from any search web sites like Zaba and White Pages because there are no laws to prevent personal information from being public knowledge ..