The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse

This article has been making the rounds for a couple days now. I finally decided to see what it was about. If one doesn't use facebrook or tiwitter or sanpchat, what does it really know? If you do use these social mediums are you content with what they can figure out about you?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-internet-knows-you-better-than-your-spouse-does/

 

Think about it like this. Maybe you buy stuff online, maybe you have made blogs, maybe you use social networks. Maybe not fb or twitter or sc, but maybe something more low key. It doesn't matter. If you use your real name, and your real age. The connections can be made, to look specifically, for your name and age all over the internet. Now if I know roughly the last place you lived. more so. The internet is NOT an anonymous place, unless you make it so. And (((((((()))))))) Maybe you have deleted your old pages, your old accounts, deleted emails, etc. Haven't you heard of cache? The internet knows you better than you. I mean unless you think about this stuff all the time and try to stay ahead of whatever information you put out.

 

I guess that depends on who 'you' happens to be.

 

SM is not the only platform...….any accounts your logged into from your browser, your being watched, or rather spidered.

We are all connected to each other!

 

The question was "If you do use these social mediums are you content with what they can figure out about you?"

 

Yeh my bad Andy...….interesting question though, and one that has many avenues.

Even though we are law abiding citizens who have nothing in a 'criminal' sense to hide, no one likes being monitored without permission right?
After all, we do have identities to protect, assets to protect and so on!

Although we may love online shopping and staying in touch with remote friends and family across SM, it gets harder (as network communications modernize), to keep our rights to privacy safe.

Its Ironic that the internet was developed by the Military to keep communications open, and safe in the event a main centre was taken out.
Bet they never foresaw what its like today?

 

I don't use any of the social media sited eg facebook, etc and nevertheless find that the amount of snooping on the internet is extremely intrusive.

When I go to any website NoScript will block a huge number of sites sometimes. Even Majorgeeks is not immune to this.

About a year ago I started using a VPN and now I also use a rotating user agent by that I mean that it will advertise my pc as having some version of an o/s and browser that I don't actually use.

Browser fingerprinting is now wide spread as well as other aspects, so need to keep everything tight.

As an analogy, how would you feel if you stepped out of your house to say go shopping on a Saturday and from the moment you stepped out of your home until the moment you returned you had someone following you who recorded everything that you did and and what you looked at in the shops.....

 

@R-R....... I like your analogy. It can lead to similar knowledge of individuals. Here the law has license plate readers that can read tags of cars going and coming. And everyone has heard of crimes being investigated by surveying the surrounding areas security cams. Toll booths have cameras. Here most major intersections have video of all four directions. I've installed the ac's for this county's traffic controll room and data room. While doing maintenance there I've seen the video wall in operation and believe me the video on the screens are crystal clear.

All my vehicles are registered in my wife's name. But to get a tag here you have to already have insurance on the vehicle. Since I'm a listed driver and the insurance has a copy of my license, I'm sure a reader can show my picture when scanning my tag. And since the law can know where you have driven, they can also survey the cameras in any location you stop and/ or shop.

I've seen where pro sports games have had facial recognition details running looking for felons going to games. I've seen recently a country singer had it running over the crowd at her concerts.

So really in the chance that someone never connects to the internet, an awful amount of knowledge can be gathered just by being in one's normal enviroment.

Don't even get me started on what could go on with drones!~

 

Well you have now opened a 'can of worms'.

Not only are you tracked driving as you say but if you throw in the aspect of mobile phones which triangulate your position at all times it becomes even more intrusive.

I recently watched a film called Leave No Trace which was excellent about a war veteran dropping off the grid for mental health reasons (not surveillance). May come to that !!!

I don't think that there is any way to avoid this tracking, at any level, the only way to protect oneself against it is camouflage.

 

facebook now wants your email passwords

 

One can be careful and selective re type of social media one uses to maintain some sort of privacy about yourself...then there are your friends who are into all types of media and Voila! there you are, splashed all over the place in photos taken with these same friends telling the world what/where/when with whom I've been up to lately...Yikes!!

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I look at it this way......your donating private info about yourself for free!
Also your family or anyone you upload data about to your page, or even private group sessions.

If you have an online profile, your prospective employers are going to look it up, your competitors will, Law Enforcement will, IRS, /Software information gathering scripts written in Python (or anything else) will, the local Club down the road may even wish to check your membership details further...….anyone with a network connection can.

Its not that this is way bad as such, there are many benefits to online interaction...…. my message is simply to 'heed caution' and trust nobody!

We all complain about Google, Microsoft and the likes for spying on us and tracking our browsing habits, watching our every move online!

Yet we offer up way more information about ourselves on Social Media for squat??

 

That is the central reason that I do not use social media platforms at all and probably never will. Another one is that clearly profiles are being monetized eg facebook.

Plus the thought of posting a picture of a dish that I have ordered at the restaurant that looks nice makes me cringe.

However, I understand that some people like doing that and that is their choice but I value my privacy.

I try and use Google as little as is humanly possible and shut down as many Windows services / Tasks as possible, including the Win7 ping.

 

That's how Zucky became a billionaire...

I don't use or need Google.

 

What a topsy turvy world that we live in.....Probably get worse over time....

 

https://i.postimg.cc/ydVfxbj6/th-Z6-DPLR2-A.jpg

 

So true - I've known of some people losing their jobs because of social media...
e.g. being spied doing something/being somewhere else when they should've been at work.
Guess on a positive, social media can keep people honest...to a point.
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My Latin is a bit rusty but does that mean thou shall not use social media ever !

 

Check - believe "EGO utor epulum super qui capto domito mihi" means: I use the occasion to grab on to dominate