re: #17 000G

What’s spooky to me is how many people are willingly turning over their personal data, turning it into such a massive aggregate that it becomes almost unavoidable and perfect for surveillance and datamining at the same time while digital privacy concerns are still all the rage and people scream bloody murder over the simple census questions – cognitive dissonance much? But then again, this is just another phenomenon of the quasi-natural development of the web overriding a lot of civil liberties and individual right concerns. I wonder if it could be reasonably avoided.

I think it’s ignorance on the part of the public. They simply aren’t aware of the dangers and since it isn’t coming from the government, they don’t see a problem.

I’m somewhat computer savvy, although I don’t know much about tracking software, spamming and hacking. How it’s done, rather.