Protect Yourself! Who is Grabbing Your Data?

Telivant
Published: 03/30/2011
Posted by: RET Staff

Who is collecting and mining advertising data about our likes, dislikes, birthday, address, gender, race, device we own, what we are looking to buy, our politics and so much more? We trust that if something bad were to happen, we would hear the screams of others and then pay attention.

Most of us use the Internet with a bit of suppressed concern about privacy. We know there is something going on in the background, but don’t have the time or will to investigate it. Who is collecting and mining advertising data about our likes, dislikes, birthday, address, gender, race, device we own, what we are looking to buy, our politics and so much more? We trust that if something bad were to happen, we would hear the screams of others and then pay attention.