Government Spying & The Private DATA Giants

Amusing to hear the pot calling the kettle black.  The great American data and computer services companies have a point as to mis-used or lost information in government hands, but approach it the wrong way.  Buying an ad and expressing concern is a fine method and raises awareness.  Establishing a LOBBY for a corporate interest group exposes an interesting group of receiving hands.

Who, however, is the victim?   Americans and their world-alikes daily give billions of bits of information about themselves to these companies.  They are checked  only by nearly adhesive contracts of release.  Certainly these peoples open and free governments can be reasonably trusted to check government abuses and maintain confidences, as can those companies.

We have Privacy Act controls, and Pin Register & Wire Tap like law options and so forth which protect the public’s interests against Leviathan.

Meanwhile,, the ordinary user can not routinely acquire from Microsoft, YAHOO, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK etc, the names of individuals or companies which bought the demographic marketing data from them.  The US Government in efficiency by the way may also genuinely purchase it and us it properly.  (For collecting the business records for the revenues millage in advertising and marketing which are occasionally audited for corporate income taxes etc., as well as for sifting possible terrorist and other criminal activities).

Since Privacy is such a now paramount concern, via the acts of a criminal (Snowden & WIKI leaks) – that’s crime, not the government, why not give the public the INTERNET DATA equivalent of a Fair Credit Report Check?  That way we can core an gore all the apples.

Have not seen a snowstorm or corporate backed protest since front organizations for the Communist Party or the Anti-Defamation Leagues of the Italian American Mafia.

Let’s use the law we have GEEKS, OK?