![]() Of MUCH BIGGER concern is our ISPs and especially cell phone carriers. In my case, that is 6 miles away on the other side of town. The closest Microsoft, for example, knows of my physical location is my POP (point of presence) - the physical location where my ISP connects me to the Internet backbone. And they are not trying to collect that information either. Unless you tell them, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, for example, they don't know our real names, street addresses, billing information, or even our physical location if we connect via Ethernet. It could have easily been prevented but they failed to apply a patch that would have blocked the vulnerability the bad guys exploited - a patch that was available for several months before the breach! And they failed to secure the data on their servers as nearly all of the data of the 147 million users compromised was stored "in the clear"! That is, it was not encrypted!Ĭlick to expand.And frankly, Google should be one of the least of our worries. For example, the massive Equifax breach a few years ago. Having said all that, the greater risk is really from sites that are supposed to protect our data who then fail to do so through incompetence, ignorance and even criminal neglect. If we don't want out information out there, we should not post it. It is important to remember that consumers tend to be our own worst enemies. ![]() You are right about bad press - but for many of these companies, they don't care about bad press. However, that may mean we cannot use their software or access their site. HOWEVER, if we specifically say they cannot, then they can't. They can harvest pretty much all they want without our approval. Click to expand.The courts have already ruled over and over again "for" Google, ISPs, cell carriers, Facebook and others.
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