DThomasC
Senior Member
And to think that only couple decades ago we had a book delivered free to every household. It had names, adresses, phone numbers. All set up nicely, so you could see which ones fit together.
It was called telephone directory![]()
And at the time (just like now) the phone company knew every call you made, to whom and for how long. But it didn't seem to bother anyone. I think the difference is that they didn't use the info for anything other than billing purposes (as far as we know.) I virtually certain they didn't share the information.
What frightens me today is not that my cell phone provider knows who I call or that online vendors know what I buy. What scares me is that there's a huge amount of information being stored about me and it's getting easier and easier to collate that information. Some of that information is private, but a lot of it I don't even consider private, like where I happen to be when traveling around in public, but it scares me that it's becoming possible to put all of that info together about me.
I suppose that's what separates us from youth that aren't frightened by all of this. They just don't see any reason for it to make them uncomfortable. Maybe they're right... to a degree.