This is a pretty good article from Wired Magazine and it’s the truth and pretty much a lot of what I say here, so good to see others join in and make the case to try to start up a wake up call for consumers. What you don’t see does hurt your or hurts your access. Again we go back once more to a post I made about a year ago in the fact that people can’t tell the difference between virtual world values and the real world. This is done on purpose to keep this confusion alive and well as it means big money for those mining and scoring your data. It’s out there and many don’t want to deal with this reality and the media does a good job down playing it as a whole with a few exceptions where folks like myself and others try to get the truth out there. 
Virtual Worlds, Real World We Have A Problem And It’s A Big One With A Lot of Gray Areas Finding Where The Defining Lines Exist, Confusing Many With A Lot of Weird Values And Strange Perceptions…
Companies and banks mine and hold your data until they find a way to make money with it, so the data they mine today will cause you to lose access to something down the road if not done today. It is what it is. Take a look at how all your credit card data is mined and scored by Argus. What’s even more alarming is the fact that the US Consumer Protection Bureau that is supposed to help us, is doing the same thing. We have a very weak leader over there anyway that I sometimes question was placed there due to the politics of the big banks anyway, just a guy that does a little to keep the public thinking the agency is really worth it. It could be as Elizabeth Warren designed it, but far from it now with Cordray being a bit of Dudley DoLittle with just enough action to make some news here and there. Cordray is just like the rest of the regulators in only attempting to go after some low hanging fruit and has no clue on how to approach real white collar code hosing crimes.
Argus Analytics Produces “Share of Credit Card” Data On Consumers - Digs Up The Dirt on Your Credit Card Behavior Patterns-US Consumer Protection Agency Is A Client-We Are Paying for Richard Cordray’s Slow Education Process
Over at HHS we now live under the six degrees of Bob Rubin, former US Treasury secretary and Citi Executive as Burwell was a former Director of his so don’t expect much there as we have the same old thing, “Stat Rat Fever” and the continued issue of the “Sebelius Syndrome” with whacked out perceptions of the virtual values that don’t play out well in the real world. Speaking of Bob Rubin, it was pretty entertaining to hear the news story of him blaming Facebook for the polarity of the US at the last Milken Conference, so publicly he’s using the old blame shift methodologies to remove the focus from what he has created over the years. Give me a break. The VA crisis should have been a wake up call for HHS, but not, they still are “Stat Rat Fever” addicts as that’s all they know and believe will lead to improvements.
VA Crisis Should Be A Huge Wake Up Call , We Have Turned Into a Nation of “Stat Rats”, Losing Touch With the “Real” World As Virtual Values Confuse, Collide and Wreak Havoc As Models & Formulas Fail
Why does some of this software not work out there? It’s because people don’t work that way and software folks want to make money and it’s hard to get software to work the way people do but it can be done but there’s a lot of models to scrap along the way and dump them. The public usually will take care of those models as they don’t get used. Where the real problem lies though with some of this is the continued push to force people to use broken models and that’s where the problem begin and continue.
“People Don’t Work That Way” A World of Broken Software Models That Don’t Align To the Human Side,Too Much Push At Times With Only A Proof of Concept That Fails in the Real World..
The World Privacy Forum a couple years ago did an outstanding report which has been cited everywhere but sadly used by few to take into accounting as to what’s really going on. Take the White House for example, you never hear a word from them about “data selling” or scoring, as they verbally tip toe around that reality and stuff you with a bunch of verbiage that will keep you satisfied for a moment or two (grin).
World Privacy Forum Report - The Scoring of America: How Secret Consumer Scores Threaten Your Privacy and Your Future - One Big Element that Fuels the Continued Attack of Killer Algorithms & Demise of the Middle Class Creating Profiteering And/Or Denial of Access
The reality here is that companies and banks are treating you just like stock bots or a piece of currency to trade and market with lAnthem Data Breach–Crooks Want to Sell Data Too–The Impact of the “Data Selling For Profit Epidemic” That Exists in the US With Scoring Consumers Removing Access and Human Dignity
This is the real deal and what’s going on out there and I call it the Attack of the Killer Algorithms (click on image at the right) as that’s doesUS “Data Selling Epidemic”-Privacy, mHealth and More Is Not Going Anywhere Until We Require All (Banks, Corporations, Insurers, Brokers, Etc.) To Buy A License to Distribute Data-You Need An Index Stupid To Identify Who to Regulate And Where…
It’s not tangible, so you don’t see it. And it changes the way that your information can be accessed and shared. The threat model is changing. I’m not just worried about people who are physically located in proximity getting access to images, and sounds, and information that I may broadcast. Now there are people and companies that are far removed from my physical location—that I may have no idea even exist—that now have access to my information.
In the physical world, if I want to keep something private, I can close the door, close the windows, adjust the blinds. There are very obvious, tangible things I can do to keep things private. I understand that if I change my clothes in front of an open window, that I’m risking people seeing me. And I understand that if don’t like that, I should either close the blinds or change somewhere else. This makes sense, and I don’t make mistakes and misunderstand the situation.
Every company in Silicon Valley is convinced that they’re going to come up with some new machine-learning algorithm that is going to help them mine gold out of people’s data. So they just need to keep all the data around until that happens. It does make sense to put some limits on that.
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/lorrie-faith-cranor-digital-privacy-control/
