It strikes hundreds of millions of us all day while we are blissfully unaware.
Today's sophisticated international is overwhelming in data but is empty for knowledge. Data minelaying is the look for for healthy designs and movements. It's also been addressed the poor stepchild to statistcial analysis.
To make you an example you go to your local supermarket to purchase food and you expend your store card for deductions and fast check. It hold the store a record of how a great deal you shop, what foods you like and at what prices in this case it's a win-win place. This keeps thoughout your day as you bank go to the mall, gas station, and so on.
However info is more and more composed without your knowledge or consent. "Black Boxes" the size of cigarette packs have been set up in 40 million vehicles to supervise speed, seat belt use, and more. Only 5 states at the existing time call for that the purchaser be made careful of this fact.
The trade-off is person has a record of when and where you get,what you eat, what over the counter medications you purchase,whether you smoke or not,where you flee and with whom, what you like to show and find out and expend money on.
Any one particular is not invasive but when birth certificates, credit histories, real estate acts, military records, and insurance policy claims are drew together it paints a very intimate picture. Add to the mix that the general person is seen by surveillence cameras 75X a day.
In the last decade an blowup of technology has taken place and the unsatiated appetite of sellers for info about consumers has made data appeal less voulutary and more worrying.
Data mining is big business. Companies vacuum up data from unrestricted and personalised records, aggragate it analyze it and sell it to purchasers going from individual companies to the CIA. If an error survives there is no knowledge on your part thus it can't be set.
Data thefts are on the raise accepted are banks, credit card companies, and the smartest of the data brokers Choicepoint.
When their records were breach they left millions of people vunerable to identity theft.
In closing technology is ever-present to stay and we love convience but we must be careful and stay vigilant. Also it's time for Congress to step up and do their job to create a basic bill of rights for all information. This will provide us with much wanted security.
Monday, December 29, 2008
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