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I find it amusing that the question is phrased in such a way, which I think illustrates people's thinking, that "they" are somehow responsible for securing the private information that "we" entrust on "their" equipment. When in reality, we have no one to blame but ourselves when we put private information on these services. We should be asking "how much do I trust myself in my ability to discern whether my private/personal information should be placed on these services?", or a question similar to that. Yes, I realize that there is a certain amount of private information that must be given to others to interact in this modern world, so my position is a bit untenable, but I think most people don't even think first whether they are making good decisions.
So, to make a pun of the subject line, we are very good at lying to ourselves that what we are doing is safe and we can trust the people around us!
Marc
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Where does trust lie?
Very interesting! Most of my relationships are based on how much had I been benefited or hurt by another human. The longer someone didn't hurt me, the more I feel I trust her/him. It's interesting that there is no certain way of measuring how much my friends are trustworthy or how am I to them?
"I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
- I wish I knew who is this quote from
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Not totally, so I would give him a 4.
I trust him to steal me blind, if he can.
So, do I trust them to what?
Be careful with my data?
Use it for their own good?
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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My guess: Trust them to remove your name before they give it to anyone 
Oh, and trust them to make it almost impossible for anyone to steal the data.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Ashley van Gerven wrote: trust them to make it almost impossible for anyone to steal the data.
THAT'S what it meant!?!  
ZERO! ZERO!! ZERO!!!
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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well the sensitivity of the data varies. But with banks, paypal etc the data should be protected from hackers as much as possible if they want to keep everyone's trust.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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And trust is what keeps them in business.
I actually trust financial organizations '4' for that reason.
Microsoft and Apple got '1', as they have no incentive to not misuse it.
I had clearances for years, so the government has known everything about me since the 80s, and never spilled it's guts. But I still gave them a 2. It was a cost of entry, so it was my call, otherwise I would not have given them the details.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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The problem is not the government giving away information but sharing it within itself.
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Dunno. Yet another ambiguous survey question.
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Some people have had their gmail accounts totally disabled by Google: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-has-disabled-my-gmail-account/7871/[^]
Happened to a work colleague recently.
So I suggest to everyone that you back up your Gmail routinely. If it's disabled you could have a long or unsuccessful journey to get it re-enabled! 
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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voted 1 for everything. I didn't even have to see who it was.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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You don't let your bank have your ssn and bank account number?
Must make banking a bear.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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The question was "Who do you trust with your personal info?"
I don't trust *anyone* with it, regardless of whether or not I'm required to provide that info.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I would not even vote myself a 5 on this. 
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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My bank. A small local bank in Germany. They already know everything about me since they finance my house.
You missed Amazon off the list; they do direct debit from my account. This is quite normal in Germany. I never had problems with them.
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No I cannot give
Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim
So Smile Please
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I gave my employer and my bank a 5. I used to work for my bank, so I know their data security and ethical standards. As for my employer, with the amount of stuff we move through here, my personal data wouldn't make as much money as selling our other data.
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Yepp!!
I have for my bank Though it don't reserve, It gives peace of mind.
Believe Yourself™
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Your question should have been who are all these gullible buggers who trust ANYONE with your data. I may have to supply them with my data but I don't trust them.
As Richard said I don't even trust myself, in an aberration I put some data on LinkedIn, I regularly have a bad feeling about that data.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yes - My employer - I own the business.
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I assume it's not there, because no one trusts facebook 
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ed welch wrote: I assume it's not there, because no one trusts facebook
They don't have a 0 in their vote options - so they could not put Facebook on there.
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