US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets

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US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets

US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets

Digital information can be purchased from commercial data brokers and 'deanonymized' to ID the person it's tied to, including US citizens, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says.

How to Claim Your Share of Google's $23 Million Search Privacy Settlement

How to Claim Your Share of Google's $23 Million Search Privacy Settlement

If you're one of the millions of US residents who used Google Search between October 2006 and September 2013, you can file a claim. The estimated payout per person is just $7.70.

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Incredible!

Not only has Google shared our data without our permission/knowledge, it is adding insult to injury with the meagre $23 million settlement whilst BILLIONS were made from the sale of our data. The loss of personal data is immense and the harm it has caused and will continue to cause to those affected is immeasureble!

 

[ozro]

US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets

US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets

Digital information can be purchased from commercial data brokers and 'deanonymized' to ID the person it's tied to, including US citizens, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says.

How to Claim Your Share of Google's $23 Million Search Privacy Settlement

How to Claim Your Share of Google's $23 Million Search Privacy Settlement

If you're one of the millions of US residents who used Google Search between October 2006 and September 2013, you can file a claim. The estimated payout per person is just $7.70.

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Incredible!

Not only has Google shared our data without our permission/knowledge, it is adding insult to injury with the meagre $23 million settlement whilst BILLIONS were made from the sale of our data. The loss of personal data is immense and the harm it has caused and will continue to cause to those affected is immeasureble!

Apparently the "harm" is measurable, and is worth $7.70.
Kind of insulting isn't it?

 

[Moonglow]

I gots sixty one dollars from the Yahoo breech.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets

US: Yep, We're Buying Your Data, Including Your Embarrassing Secrets

Digital information can be purchased from commercial data brokers and 'deanonymized' to ID the person it's tied to, including US citizens, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says.

How to Claim Your Share of Google's $23 Million Search Privacy Settlement

How to Claim Your Share of Google's $23 Million Search Privacy Settlement

If you're one of the millions of US residents who used Google Search between October 2006 and September 2013, you can file a claim. The estimated payout per person is just $7.70.

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Incredible!

Not only has Google shared our data without our permission/knowledge, it is adding insult to injury with the meagre $23 million settlement whilst BILLIONS were made from the sale of our data. The loss of personal data is immense and the harm it has caused and will continue to cause to those affected is immeasureble!

The ONLY people getting BIG BUCKS off class action suits are the LAWYERS!

And the payout for the "victims" will become smaller and smaller, as the number of claimants grows.

I was in a class action suit against Sketchers some years ago, and we were supposed to get $50 each, but because there were SO many claimants that registered, we only got $10 each.

The COURTS get their money FIRST.
Then the lawyers.
Then the administrative fees.
Then any applicable taxes.
Then "other" fees.
THEN the victims get their measely handful of pennies.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

The fact that ALL media conglomerates in America are now owned by the Chinese government media department through their parent corporations is all you need to know about how "secure" our info is online...........or for that fact, anywhere.

If you have a bank account, pay for a house or car, have a credit card, have a loan, or work a job.........the Chinese government has your information.

If you have healthcare insurance, every scammer in India, Russia, and Europe has your private information.

Your "online privacy" is a myth. There is NO SUCH THING as "online privacy". Just like being "off the grid" is a myth.
They have your information, and they can find you.

 

[ozro]

The fact that ALL media conglomerates in America are now owned by the Chinese government media department through their parent corporations is all you need to know about how "secure" our info is online...........or for that fact, anywhere.

If you have a bank account, pay for a house or car, have a credit card, have a loan, or work a job.........the Chinese government has your information.

If you have healthcare insurance, every scammer in India, Russia, and Europe has your private information.

Your "online privacy" is a myth. There is NO SUCH THING as "online privacy". Just like being "off the grid" is a myth.
They have your information, and they can find you.

"Off the grid" means different things, but it doesn't mean you can't be found or the government doesn't know where you are. In my area it simply means out beyond the power lines.

 

[Moonglow]

The fact that ALL media conglomerates in America are now owned by the Chinese government media department through their parent corporations is all you need to know about how "secure" our info is online...........or for that fact, anywhere.

If you have a bank account, pay for a house or car, have a credit card, have a loan, or work a job.........the Chinese government has your information.

If you have healthcare insurance, every scammer in India, Russia, and Europe has your private information.

Your "online privacy" is a myth. There is NO SUCH THING as "online privacy". Just like being "off the grid" is a myth.
They have your information, and they can find you.

You are very closed-minded when it comes to villains.

 

[lennypartiv]

I gots sixty one dollars from the Yahoo breech.

So $61 is worth it for the liberals who got caught typing "gloryhole" into the Google search engine?

 

[whitehall]

Maybe kids don't understand it or some adults either but when you post an embarrassing secret on the internet it's no longer a secret.