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another fascinating thing I find with all this iot is that it nearly always comes with a social media angle.

Dealing with businesses these days biggest worry is our privacy, but when it comes to social media including a shitload of iot let's show the world almost every aspect of our personal life.

Everything done and used in the [once was] privacy of our homes is being put out there.
Yeah I know it's different information, how much money vs what I own, street address vs what my house looks like (inside and out), my medical condition compared to what I often/never eat/drink ...
details private, clues aplenty.


JUST WHAT MARKETING ALWAYS WANTED
1 sure in the old days they always wanted to know how much disposable income you have,
and from that they would try and guess
2 what you spend that money on,
3 what is your "quality" target (i.e. do you buy Ikea or custom made furniture), hotel or B&B,
4 when, where, how you buy, how much do you buy, how much do you use ...
...
In the old days they would use #1 to "guess" 2, 3, 4 ...

now with social media they have 2, 3 and 4 handed to them on a platter
- it's exactly the info they always wanted - they know exactly how to target you.
- and it's also a hell of a lot easier to calculate #1 given 2, 3 and 4 than the other way around.

so really, apart from things like actual credit card numbers really what does "privacy" mean when we tell organisations not to share our info but we let our devices do it?
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