I guess next month I'm done with Yahoo mail

[silver-eagle]

I have an email address at a popular pilot forum that used to be hosted on their own machines. The ease of use and the cost of doing business pushed them out to gmail. Since I use POP3 to pull my gmail, I almost never see any ads. On those rare occasions when I directly access gmail, I am as blind to the ads as when I see them on FB.
I don't expect any privacy in email or internet or walking down the street. I know my company scans and collects internet addresses whether they let me see the page or not. We are all being watched. There are cameras in use everywhere. If anything, last weeks events in Boston should prove that.
The age of anonymity is over. If "they" want you, they will find you.

 

[Captain]

I have an email address at a popular pilot forum that used to be hosted on their own machines. The ease of use and the cost of doing business pushed them out to gmail. Since I use POP3 to pull my gmail, I almost never see any ads. On those rare occasions when I directly access gmail, I am as blind to the ads as when I see them on FB.
I don't expect any privacy in email or internet or walking down the street. I know my company scans and collects internet addresses whether they let me see the page or not. We are all being watched. There are cameras in use everywhere. If anything, last weeks events in Boston should prove that.
The age of anonymity is over. If "they" want you, they will find you.

You got that right, brother. Especially on this forum!

 

[Everskyward]

Governments Won't Need to Issue IDs: Data Brokers Will Identify You for Them

Our government collects a lot of information about us. Tax records, legal records, license records, records of government services received-- it's all in databases that are increasingly linked and correlated. Still, there's a lot of personal information the government can't collect. Either they're prohibited by law from asking without probable cause and a judicial order, or they simply have no cost-effective way to collect it. But the government has figured out how to get around the laws, and collect personal data that has been historically denied to them: ask corporate America for it.