The internet isn't free - You pay for it with your privacy
Red hot IPO this year, Facebook is valued by market up to $100 billions. There are about 850 millions registered users on Facebook today. That equals $118 per user.
Think about that your life timeline, your data actually your privacy on Facebook are worth about over 100 bucks that is not bad at all. However, you won't get one cent. Mark Zuckerberg and his amigos are going to collect $100 billion cheque.
Just one week ago, Google has changed its long term "Don't Be Evil" policy which mean Google is going to datamine deeper and benefice harder your digital properties stored in Google cloud.
Both companies never say is that the more data they have collected, the more power they wield, and the more money they will make.
Sharing is new phishing. Free is new trap for boobies. And digital data is the new currency people who own them could trade ...
(do people think that if they use public-centered internet sites from the darkness of their bedrooms with windows shut that somehow they're entitled to "privacy"? on internet ;)
In public doesn't mean you relinquish your privacy willingly.
This comes FB settled with FTC (Federal Trade Commission) over privacy lawsuit in 2011, just before IPO ...
luckily the police in this country do really have brains and they were quick to sort it out and reassure us that they will in fact protect us from an "insane lady" if she will bother us again with her crazy allegations!! ;-))
but, since then I always wonder what if it was me with the camera and the 55-old lady was more like 15yo or smtng like that... ??!! ;-))
btw, to be honest - on the beach in the water, without my "minus 10" shortsighted/astigmatic glasses on, I won't be able to tell the difference between 15yo and 55yo from 10m away... ;-)
I'm becoming more and more glad I no longer have an account.