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.