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Best way to hide information is to make up new stuff every time you create an account, somewhere.
That, and being a member of no social networking sites. I don't even like send email to a gmail account: you're creating a profile just the same. A little bit slower, but they still map out your life.
Never bought a thing on ebay. No pay pal. Etc.
OOOOOPS! I just gave away a sh*tload of private information about me!
/xml> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
| "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek dissappointment. If you are searching for perfection in yourself, then you seek failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I only trust my wife with my private data...
Louis.
"Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land"
-Mr. Miyagi
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Just married?
Peter Wasser
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You are correct - language alone is insufficient. Shakespeare could be translated completely into emoticons.
Peter Wasser
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ldaoust wrote: I only trust my wife with my private data...
Well this is the only valid answer you can give by definition, since if your wife knows your CP login password (which she would since she has your private data), then I am sure she'd also be following your posts here. So no other answer would be safe.
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i believe in my mouse ;}
d{^__^}b - it's time to fly
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And do you believe in your keyboard ?
Oops it's not an animal ^^
But do you trust in your fingers too ?
Regards
kan'
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d{^__^}b - it's time to fly
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I find it amusing that the question is phrased in such a way, which I think illustrates people's thinking, that "they" are somehow responsible for securing the private information that "we" entrust on "their" equipment. When in reality, we have no one to blame but ourselves when we put private information on these services. We should be asking "how much do I trust myself in my ability to discern whether my private/personal information should be placed on these services?", or a question similar to that. Yes, I realize that there is a certain amount of private information that must be given to others to interact in this modern world, so my position is a bit untenable, but I think most people don't even think first whether they are making good decisions.
So, to make a pun of the subject line, we are very good at lying to ourselves that what we are doing is safe and we can trust the people around us!
Marc
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Where does trust lie?
Very interesting! Most of my relationships are based on how much had I been benefited or hurt by another human. The longer someone didn't hurt me, the more I feel I trust her/him. It's interesting that there is no certain way of measuring how much my friends are trustworthy or how am I to them?
"I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." - I wish I knew who is this quote from
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Not totally, so I would give him a 4.
I trust him to steal me blind, if he can.
So, do I trust them to what?
Be careful with my data?
Use it for their own good?
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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My guess: Trust them to remove your name before they give it to anyone
Oh, and trust them to make it almost impossible for anyone to steal the data.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Ashley van Gerven wrote: trust them to make it almost impossible for anyone to steal the data.
THAT'S what it meant!?!
ZERO! ZERO!! ZERO!!!
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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well the sensitivity of the data varies. But with banks, paypal etc the data should be protected from hackers as much as possible if they want to keep everyone's trust.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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And trust is what keeps them in business.
I actually trust financial organizations '4' for that reason.
Microsoft and Apple got '1', as they have no incentive to not misuse it.
I had clearances for years, so the government has known everything about me since the 80s, and never spilled it's guts. But I still gave them a 2. It was a cost of entry, so it was my call, otherwise I would not have given them the details.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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The problem is not the government giving away information but sharing it within itself.
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Dunno. Yet another ambiguous survey question.
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Some people have had their gmail accounts totally disabled by Google: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-has-disabled-my-gmail-account/7871/[^]
Happened to a work colleague recently.
So I suggest to everyone that you back up your Gmail routinely. If it's disabled you could have a long or unsuccessful journey to get it re-enabled!
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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