People not caring about their privacy and their data being collected and sold to everyone. “Eh, it’s not like my data is worth anything”. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be sold, moron. All those spam and scam calls you receive? Yeah, that’s because your “worthless” data is being sold, resold and spread out everywhere. But hey, if you fall for a scam and lose, dunno, 50k dollars, it’s not a big deal, huh?
I think more people should be concerned about their privacy, but I don’t really agree with this premise. It’s kind of like if there were diamonds in some peoples trash, so a company collected everyone’s trash so sift through it and take the diamonds to sell. The fact that some people’s trash is valuable enough for them to do this, doesn’t mean mine is.
That’s how these work, they hoover up everything and sell it in bulk. It doesn’t mean any given users data is valuable. And that’s why so many don’t care.
As far as scam calls go, I have a number I have never given to anyone outside immediate family, who I know haven’t shared it, and still received scam calls. They just call every number, even if you don’t answer. Pretty sure if it rings at all they flag it as potentially active. Sure spreading it around may increase the number, but there’s no true way to hide.
People not caring about their privacy and their data being collected and sold to everyone. “Eh, it’s not like my data is worth anything”. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be sold, moron. All those spam and scam calls you receive? Yeah, that’s because your “worthless” data is being sold, resold and spread out everywhere. But hey, if you fall for a scam and lose, dunno, 50k dollars, it’s not a big deal, huh?
I think more people should be concerned about their privacy, but I don’t really agree with this premise. It’s kind of like if there were diamonds in some peoples trash, so a company collected everyone’s trash so sift through it and take the diamonds to sell. The fact that some people’s trash is valuable enough for them to do this, doesn’t mean mine is.
That’s how these work, they hoover up everything and sell it in bulk. It doesn’t mean any given users data is valuable. And that’s why so many don’t care.
As far as scam calls go, I have a number I have never given to anyone outside immediate family, who I know haven’t shared it, and still received scam calls. They just call every number, even if you don’t answer. Pretty sure if it rings at all they flag it as potentially active. Sure spreading it around may increase the number, but there’s no true way to hide.
😂 More people should be aware of this.