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I recently got paid for a research study. They paid me with a Visa Debit Card. I'm annoyed that now, Visa can track what I buy. They've already got demographic info about me (name, etc.), now they'll have this, too.
The science-fiction-y part of my mind is imagining a day, maybe not far, when our paychecks are issued as debit cards, so all of our spending can be tracked.
And all of us just going along with it....
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However I just learned Apples Spotlight not only collects information on your searches, but collects that data and assigns it to the computers owner.
How do they know the name of the computer owner?
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Algorithms are in place to determine a WHOLE lot about us, by what we post and buy online: sexual orientation, pregnancy, etc. (And they are better at it than I ever imagined.) In some places, this knowledge might get people jailed, or worse.
One person who works on these algorithms is starting to think about what these things can do, much the way some scientists in The Manhattan Project began to doubt their involvement.
Short video, 10 mins: http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_golbeck_the_curly_fry_conundrum_why_social_media_likes_say_more_than_you_might_think
Check out the business startup she says she could start legally, right now. It's shocking!
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I recently got paid for a research study. They paid me with a Visa Debit Card. I'm annoyed that now, Visa can track what I buy. They've already got demographic info about me (name, etc.), now they'll have this, too.
The science-fiction-y part of my mind is imagining a day, maybe not far, when our paychecks are issued as debit cards, so all of our spending can be tracked.
We're halfway there, folks. I just got my first unemployment payment, and it's on a Visa-branded debit card.
What'll I bet most people aren't going to bother transferring the money to their personal accounts, but will just go out and spend directly off the card.....
Brother.
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I recently got paid for a research study. They paid me with a Visa Debit Card. I'm annoyed that now, Visa can track what I buy. They've already got demographic info about me (name, etc.), now they'll have this, too.
The science-fiction-y part of my mind is imagining a day, maybe not far, when our paychecks are issued as debit cards, so all of our spending can be tracked.
We're halfway there, folks. I just got my first unemployment payment, and it's on a Visa-branded debit card.
What'll I bet most people aren't going to bother transferring the money to their personal accounts, but will just go out and spend directly off the card.....
Brother.
Food stamps comes as a debit card too. I guess they want to see if poor folks are buying spam and ramen noodles, or expensive cuts of beef and shrimp.
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Yes, can't wait for the internet connected refrigerators with cameras and sensors designed to tell corporations (and hackers) what you have in it.
From Arthur C. Clarke's "July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century" (published 1986), in the section about computer-controlled housing:
"Initially, many prospective buyers feared they would be easy targets for surveillance by banks, the IRS, even A.C. Nielsen; that their lives would be laid bare.
Senshaus [the manufacturer] spent a quarter of its advertising budget to convince buyers that they were not mortgaging themselves into an Orwellian nightmare.
The company, however, suffered a major marketing setback when Queen Diana's persona maid sold the voice and digital records of King Charles' Cornwall house to the New York Post."
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