ADAM OLSEN -- This is just paranoid, conspiratorial fear-mongering you say! The result of the over-active mind of someone listening to too many podcasts
I had an interesting conversation with a couple of friends about the threat of digital intrusions. How far will you let the perception of convenience justify your personal vulnerability? Is it too much work to care about how corporations are using the data we trade for access to their latest time saving / consuming application or service? Does it require to much of our bandwidth to actually go back and limit personal access? Maybe it's easier to believe that there isn’t possibly anything in your life that they will find interesting. Are they looking for interesting? Are they seeking anything in particular? What if they are only harvesting data points to sell or lease them? Or they could be building a digital avatar of you that gains definition with every input. These are all important questions that I fear too few of us are asking. Checking the box Another aspect, of the business of data, is that what they are harvesting now could be used for something...