[QUOTE=David Weaver;2316701]
Originally Posted by
Scott Shepherd
It was a generalized comment, not directed at you. Whether or not your search items are sold to someone else is not necessarily a matter of rights, it's a matter of legality. I wouldn't ever search for anything on the internet, or view anything and make the assumption that I can dictate whether or not it can be used, sold, etc. It can, and it will be, and even if it's illegal, it probably still will be. That's just reality at this point.
And that's exactly my complaint. If people had any clue, even a tiny bit of a clue about the profiles built on them by these companies, there would be public outcry and it would stop. However, most people aren't geeks and don't understand what's happening. As a point of reference, it's not so much Google, but there are many private companies who's names aren't publicly known, that are companies that do nothing but work on putting together all the pieces about each of us. They gather the data, buy it, and start building a profile on each and every one of us. Then they sell that profile to companies. To me, it's like having a private investigator researching you for years, then taking an ad out in the newspaper and posting everything about you that they know. To me, that's just incredibly wrong.
Again, if people knew and understood what was being done, it would stop. But no one ever listens to the geeks
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