Believing the Web and email are both secure and private requires a willing suspension of disbelief.
So read this story and take a lesson for living:
| The Softer Side of Spyware from Sears, Kmart
Googins noted on his company’s blog that the spyware installed by Sears transmitted everything from banking logins, email, and all other forms of Internet usage to comScore for analysis all in the name of ‘community’ participation. This was done without notice, an act contrary to documentation about the community from Sears saying that any data collected would stay within Sears’ hands at all times. |
I’ve been trying to tell people that they shouldn’t assume privacy and security online. Not even in “private” and “personal” email.
But I think most of them think I’m being old-fashioned. Or hypersensitive. Or paranoid.
No. I’m. Not.
🙂
Now, say it with me…all together now…
Mark is not paranoid!
Thank you.