if it comes from somebody i know it s okay to open that. no. so how do i communicate with people? people that you know, if you and i are having dialogue i might click links and i ll engage in that. but if i get an e-mail from my bank saying hey your statements ready. click on this link to access your statement. i m not going to click that link. it s so con convenient to click that link and bad guys know that. if you type into it the address bar or go to your favorites menu, these extra steps you might take protect you. you say slurp up the information. if you use a wireless network you have to have encryption. yes. so public wifi, airports, hotels out in the open. i can see your data as it s transmitting through the air. but if i m on free wifi i don t give out my credit card numbers that way. well, some people do, right? yeah. so as long as i don t, i m okay. they can t crawl into the computer and get other stuff. your operating system is
silver that his grandma gave him. all sorts of opportunities to reign in our own privacy and say nothing about the fact that you go to somebody s house to visit. your gps tracker may take you there and may show that you are there. what if hah information is now being shared with other friends that should have been invited to the house at the same time and now you find yourself explaining, oh, i m sorry. you weren t included in that lovely dinner. the government wants the trackers mandatory in all cars. they re already in more than 90%. companies use them to keep track of employees. the wall street journal reports one company found one worker overseeing a woman during the day and another admitted he was blowing off work. they fired him but caught him with the trackers. they do. this may have some cost savings for companies that decide to put this in their vehicle. i assume fox could fox can
facebook, pinterest. he think the government will get him. you didn t read them? i read the entire thing every time it pops up. no one reads it. what s your point. if you read them, you click it, so what? i mean, look these terms and conditions are designed not to be read. they strip you of rights in these terms and conditions. they basically take away in constitution in terms and conditions and say look even though you have these rights in the physical world, in the digital world, you don t have any. europe has a law that requires companies to tell customer who is ask exactly what data they store. got it right there. that s 1,222 pages. yet it s easy for facebook to zip through that information and learn private things about you. type in one word, let s say demonstration or sex or political party or something and within seconds you ll find the
her father did. they outed her. explain that. so target like pretty much any other big retailer, they track what you buy, right? so what target did in that case, allegedly, is they determined that pregnant women typically buy a lot of moisturizer during a certain trimester and these other products so this teenager ended up in that pool of people that would get in the mail a bunch of coupons for whatever the moisturizer was and some of these other products that pregnant women buy. and they mailed her the coupons and her father asked why are you getting these? yeah. it s just become this story that typifies how marketers use information and how much information they re collecting on us. they know before you may even know said a guy in a previous segment about who you re going
likewise, google reveals information about me. lots of it. some of it is wrong but there s little i can do about that either. facebook knows my preferences and who i might stalk. other sites track what i like to read. what a browse, what i buy. i m told i should be very upset about this but i m not. i depend on getting and sending e-mails. for all i know, my 16-year-old neighbor hijacks them and sells them to my political enemies. i have plenty of those and they d love to embarrass me. so far i don t think that s happened but who knows. because of today s technology i changed my behavior years ago. i try not to e-mail anything too embarrassing. i m aware when i search the web someone might watch. i ll deal with that. if you find out what i like to do on the weekend, what medications i take or that i ve seen a psycho therapist, so what? i m not ashamed. i want to do something really embarrassing, i better do it in