‘Psychic’ to Demonstrate Dangers of Sharing Personal Info Online

[Lionheart]

 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/psa-uses-psychic-demonstrate-dangers-sharing-personal-online-174017116.html
It's really that easy, just another reason to always stay aware!  

[Stookie_]

It's true. I always wondered why people volunteer so much personal info on the net. Facebook is an amazing tool for marketers to build a profile on you: what you want, what music you listen to, what you read, what you watch, your hobbies. Google does this as well. It's scary to think companies build profiles on individuals. I'm sure for the most part it's all about marketing, but what if it gets into the wrong hands? As a consumer, you are not cared about, so you have to take care of yourself.

[Volgerle]

... what if it gets into the wrong hands? As a consumer, you are not cared about, so you have to take care of yourself.

I think this is already happening for quite some time with Google, Facebook & co.

This is "still" a parody, but there might be a core of truth in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sThcwmx3rs

[Stillwater]

Yes, and in the US the government builds massive profiles of individuals and their internet habits, chat logs, purchases, and browsing patterns. There are simply massive databases dedicated to storing hundreds of gigabytes per followed individual. And corporate data miners gather complete profiles like these on ALL internet users, for the purpose of advertisement field narrowing to sell to certain self-defining demographics.

It is not hard for me to imagine the US government and miltary requesting and being quickly granted access to all of these data mining databases either... I more or less assume that anything anyone does will ultimately be visible to the government online, if they decide they have a reason for interest (and it doesn't take much).

As much as I like Google, I don't think it is paranoid to say that they are silently building a case against you for the government when they want to decide you are guilty of this or that thoughtcrime.

[catmeow]

I think this is already happening for quite some time with Google, Facebook & co.

This is "still" a parody, but there might be a core of truth in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sThcwmx3rs

Great OP and I love this spoof video. Anyway, that's why I don't use facebook, twitter, linkedin or google+. Unfortunately, if you run a small limited company in the UK, then your address can easily be obtained by just typing your name into google. A number of sites list director's addresses obtained from Companies House, in the clear for free to the whole world. 192.com will provide names addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers to any stalker for about £10. The banks are using illegal means to gather information too. I have a friend who is a senior banker and he says that some of the personal background reports that land on his desk contain so much information they could only be obtained illegally. But with sites like Facebook around, who needs to break the law? Sign up to google+ and it will tell the local burglars exactly when your house is empty. Use twitter for the same purpose....!

[Stookie_]

On top of all of that stuff, I've seen relationships fall apart because of FB. Divorces. And people get fired for sharing what they did last weekend or saying something negative about their employer.

[Szaxx]

Hi,
Or even a glass of alcohol free wine when you apply for a teaching job. (TV news)
I never knew sad could be spelled FB.
The above post says it all...