Courtesy of Firefox
Privacy is a luxury, and it is of paramount importance to the people who buy and sell luxury real estate.. Here are some ways that you can insure it, at least for yourself.
According to a CNN article, we
discovered that Internet “BIG” Data Mining & Brokering companies now
represents “a $300 billion-a-year business that employs 3 million
people in the United States alone” according to McKinsey Global
Institute. Focusing more on big data is most likely an important reason
for merger talks between the 2nd and 3rd largest
global advertising firms, so they can better compete with the likes of
Google and Facebook—the biggest aggregators of personal information on
earth.
The largest company, Acxiom, provides
“analytical services” on 144 million households. They are aware of your
name, your phone number, where you live, your buying habits and much
more. You may wish to have Internet sites know your personal
preferences, with your deliberate permission. That way they can
recommend products and services to you. But, there are now hundreds if
not thousands of sites that are potentially tracking or even stalking
Internet users (and their kids), sites that they may not know about.
Do Not Track
To get a better idea of how this
phenomenon has grown exponentially in recent years please watch this
brief TED Talk video, by Firefox CEO Gary Kovacs. Prepare to be amazed!
Fortunately, there is something you can do about this on Firefox (click here).
Delete Me / Mask Me
The CNN report also pointed us to
Abine.com that has tools to delete your personal information on the
Internet. According to Abine, “Nearly everything you do leaves a trace,
and data brokers collect this information to create and sell public
profiles about you”. Their subscription based service, DeleteMe, removes:
- Your public profile from leading data sites
- Contact, personal, and social information
- Photos of you, your family, and your home
You can also stop giving out your personal information online altogether, with their other service MaskMe.
Says Abine, “No company can guarantee that they will keep your data
private. If you give out your email, phone, or credit card number, you
now have to assume it's recorded and potentially shared, lost, or
stolen. Now you can simply stop giving it out with MaskMe”.
Beware of companies that pretend to
offer a “do not track” service. Some are actually tracking companies in
disguise. Privacy is definitely a luxury. But, it is up to you,
individually, to protect your own.
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