{"id":464,"date":"2010-08-01T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intuitiveinvestor.com\/web\/?p=464"},"modified":"2018-08-17T15:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:50:14","slug":"privacy-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/08\/01\/privacy-think-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy? Think again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Late Friday evening the Wall Street Journal ran what I consider to be a shocking report.\u00a0 Many of the largest websites are installing super sophisticated tracking software to micro-track your web browsing.\u00a0 These sites include the likes of Google, MSN, Comcast.net., and Dictionary.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Up to 100 pieces of tracking software can be running simultaneously.\u00a0 Some of these mini-programs are tracking your keystrokes and then analyzing what you have typed to create a profile of you.\u00a0 In other words, the tracking software allows companies to &#8220;build personal profiles that could include age, gender, race, zip code, income, marital status and health concerns, along with recent purchases and favorite TV shows and movies.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Journal&#8217;s study examined the top 50 trafficked websites that cover approximately 40% of page views.\u00a0 Those top 50 sites installed on the Journal&#8217;s test computer 3,180 tracking files.\u00a0 Of that number, 2,224 came from 131 companies that are in the business of making money by selling usage data to advertisers.\u00a0 When queried, each of the companies in question defended their actions by saying that they do not track individuals by name.\u00a0 They also stated that their sites disclose such tracking in their privacy policies.\u00a0 However, if you have ever read through one of those privacy policies you know that, yes, they do disclose that they track you.\u00a0 What is not disclosed is to what degree you are tracked.\u00a0 Yikes!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I normally am not bothered by privacy type issues, however, this seems excessive to me.\u00a0 I already feel that advertising is intrusive and over the top.\u00a0 So I am very concerned about the pervasiveness and completeness of these tracking programs.\u00a0 Yuck!\u00a0 One of the reasons that I do not have advertising on this blog is because I always want my readers to know that there is not a conflict of interest between my content and my supporters.\u00a0 This site remains, and will always remain, advertising free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Friday evening the Wall Street Journal ran what I consider to be a shocking report.\u00a0 Many of the largest websites are installing super sophisticated tracking software to micro-track your web browsing.\u00a0 These sites include the likes of Google, MSN, Comcast.net., and Dictionary.com. Up to 100 pieces of tracking software can be running simultaneously.\u00a0 Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}